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How one can differenciate between a slaughtered carcass and naturally dead one?

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i mean, how you can differenciate between a dressed carcass slaughtered by humane method and one which is dressed after natural death

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  1. The naturally dead one is in one peice...


  2. By definition slaughtered means cut up.  A natural death will not show cutting.  If the animal has been dead long enough to have been preyed upon you'll see signs of tearing and pulling and chew marks.

  3. It depends on how the animal was slaughtered - if done by someone who knows what they are doing, typically, a slaughtered animal is drained of blood and skinned - any meat cuts are sharp lines, and there are no bite marks or tears from wild animals.  If an animal dies from 'natural causes' i.e. disease, the carcass will tend to bloat as the gut bacteria builds up gas pressure, and various insects will begin laying eggs on the carcass.  No bullet wounds or arrow wounds should be visible, although after a few days of decay, it might be quite difficult to tell the difference between one which died of disease and one that was killed intentionally, but left to rot.

  4. if by slaughtered, you mean killed by humans, then looking at the teeth might help - if it is an adult, that is. If the teeth are very worn, it means it is an old individual, more likely to have died from disease, hypothermia, starvation etc. as well as predation (but the others have answered that) than an individual with sharp, unworn teeth that would indicate is was young when it died and more likely to have had an unnatural death.

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