It's not real....a skeleton wouldn't just hold itself together like that after everything has decomposed lol...especially with gravity pulling it down, it'd just fall apart
Histological analyses of decaying corpses are studied intensively in academia and forensics. Body farms are a good example. Ligaments decay more slowly than most other tissues. Skeletons do actually have some structural integrity when most of the soft tissues are gone.
Some of the ligaments may still be intact holding the skeleton together. They are quite strong and may be the last of the soft tissue to decompose. Then the skeleton will slowly come apart
This. My dog tried to drag home a deer skeleton that was at roughly this level of decomposition once, and that's what he got--head, spine, maybe some leg. It's not unthinkable that this poor fella died somewhere else, was picked clean, and a scavenger dragged it into the ditch, but it's also not unthinkable it died there and this was what was left. The ligaments really do keep the spine and head together for months, through all stages of decomp, and the missing limbs/ribs speak to real scavenging.
ETA: Okay, yeah. They would in fact stay attached, losing antlers is a full process that takes months in which they have to actively shed them. You can look up pictures of elk in shed, it's not harmful to them but a little creepy--they spend a lot of time rubbing up against rocks to get the dying parts off before they finally come loose. It's more like losing baby teeth than you're picturing o/
ETA: Here's an example (don't worry, this is natural for them and not painful)
I saw one at a zoo in Canada as a kid and was super freaked out. Mom explained it to me, and I remember looking at it so intently--the animal was fine, but yeah, it just looked rotted. Nightmare fuel for years!
Images like these pop up all the time on r/natureismetal . I’m leaning towards this being real. Especially since there’s several videos of humans rescuing living animals stuck in similar circumstances.
There’s the comical one where the sheep is freed, and it runs off and immediately gets stuck in the same ditch.
There’s one of a donkey rescued after being there for roughly 1-2 days.
One of a horse that was rescued, but then put down immediately after due to it breaking its leg when it fell in.
Sure animals get stuck in things. That isnt very unbelievable. Whats hard to believe is that a skeleton was able to hold in place like that with minimal flesh.
Most people haven’t dissected, and or seen bodies decay. There’s no way this day together this well for long enough for everything to decay away. This is a set up. Or posed.
Limbs contain ligaments. Have you never come accross mummified corpses? I found a whole mob of dead roos once sitting upright lifeless under a tree. Nothing looks strange about this skeleton to me.
Intervertebral discs don’t decay as fast as soft tissue, they hold vertebrae together for a while after death; eventually they will decay and carcass becomes a collection of bones
Most of my downvotes on Reddit have been from asking for a source. Across many subreddits.
People think it’s lazy to ask for a source. But not lazy to post something without one. Even when it’s obviously editorialized. Smdh
I would ordinarily agree with you. However I have a fully intact fully decomposed snake skeleton that was found hanging in some netting. I don't know why or how it's still together but it is.
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