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In a message dated 8/22/02 10:47:54 PM, dacunefare@... writes:

<< The following images show the gradual changes taking place as the body of
a

dead rabbit decomposes over a period of nearly 12 months. 

http://www.offwell.free-online.co.uk/decompos.htm >>

That was pretty cool.

I used "slide show" and it left all those windows on my desktop, so as I
clicked them shut, the rabbit "got better," nearly came back to life.

It seems rabbits must decompose more artfully and efficiently in England than
in New Mexico. We get dead animals dry up so that the skin is hard as a rock
and they get flat. The ants will eat the insides and are kinda frisbee-like,
like cow pies.

I guess in wet places there aren't frisbee-like cowchips dry as dust, nor
flat petrified mouse corpses.

When I was little there was a dead porcupine, sitting looking fairly healthy
except for many years dead. We saw him every year, just inside an old mine
shaft where we used to go camping. He was hollow from little bugs eating the
inside, but he was still in his original shape, NOT all gone like that
rabbit.

Sandra