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Well,
There's plenty of dead cows to go around. I can find on a daily basis.
I remember observing one from when it was fresh meat, until it was just bones... Then it was gradually buried under the mud and clay in a Utah wash after a couple torrential rains until it was gone forever. That's how critters often disappear, nature takes care of the burial. Weirder to me was a complete, intact, sun bleached white cow skeleton I found once. That doesn't happen much. Nature won't let it be.
In the pecking order of exciting animal carcass discoveries, it's a more common species though. Like when you first start birding, and see a chickadee... My most exciting discovery was a pile of wild bison which had all followed each other and ran off a cliff. I think there were five. I assumed there was a lightning strike which spooked them. Another was a bobcat. Death in the wild is interesting as when you find a pretty and wild animal like that, all intact, you do wonder what happened.
They die of disease, poison, a broken leg, being shot by hooligans, just about anything. Sometimes other cows kill them too, if they are ornery. And a rancher might just segregate from the herd and dispose of it, for reasons only he knows. So who knows what the story was here. I guess it's whatever you want it to be.
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