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Imagine that your hiking through the mountains and stumble upon an animal, smelling its decomposed odor that it leaves behind. The many pieces scattered around like an unsolved puzzle. Of course your first reaction is to poke at its nonliving body hoping theirs no life in it and when the fun is over leave like you never encountered it at all. I came across an animal carcass but out of curiosity, I slightly nudged a soft stick into the remaining animal as slowly as I could, trying not to cause any more damage. I couldn't tell what kind of animal it was but then I viewed it closer and noticed the head was shaped like a snowball with black specks of dirt inscribed into the patched white discolored skeleton. I flipped it on its side, the teeth that looked like a smokers with its yellow stained teeth that were once precious pearls. The jaw stretched out with four enlarged teeth and smaller teeth engulfed in the back that seemed alien like. The once place holder for its beloved eyes know a burrow of emptiness. As I skimmed its carcass I thought where is the rest of the body? How did the body look before? How does a body decompose?
I dug around to look for possible answers to my question. According to Darren Naish he's fascinated with animal decomposing that he even does his own techniques on animals he finds on the road or even his front porch. He uses many methods to getting a body out of its flesh. One is soaking the carcass in water for a long period of time which allows the bone to soften and fall off leaving a clean bone as the end result. Another is boiling the bone but its very disguising considering its done in the kitchen (and stink up the house). Last is microwaving the corpse creating heat temperature and causes the skin, flesh and other tissue to completely fall off. Naish has had many experiments done by himself and told some by collaborators.
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Darren Naish
" How to rot down bodies: the Tet zoo body farm" |
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It may sound disgusting and disturbing but its the circle of life. Its happens everyday from it being on the road, in the desert, our backyard or even in your own house decaying away. But here's another question who are the doers? Well their are many anthropoids that help with the process of decomposition. Ants are outstanding at decaying away the flesh and cleansing it to the skeleton.Isopods ( woodlice) do an outstanding job at eating away the flesh of a carcass. The ants and isopods have to be in a colony for the job to come out with good results, Also dermestid beetles which some museums have in a large number to specifically decay the carcass. As a body is left these anthropoids come jolting in to eat off its nutritious flesh leaving behind the ridged boney white skeleton. The video shows the life of a bunny being eaten away from various kind of animals( watch closely and you can see them moving the body).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrSHku6-LFo
I have seen an animal left dead on the road but never stayed after to watch the real beauty begin. Its weird and fascinating to know that right know their are not only animals but people buried underneath the rich soil. Being alarmingly welcomed as the richness of the flesh gets exposed to the minerals of the dirt. Knowing that that's the start and end of the a new of life. Leaving the ends results with fragmented skeleton that beholds beauty. Thank you for decomposing the righteousness and showing its inner beauty. Word Cited
Naish, Darren. "How to rot down dead bodies: the Tet zoo body farm". ScienceBlog LLC@ 2006-2014. N.P.n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2014
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