Speaking of decomposition and such. I drive to work on country roads and when the snow finally melted over the past week, it exposed a culvert (drainage ditch) that had been covered for a couple of months. At one spot along the road, in the ditch, where a deer carcus had been (since maybe September), there was now a completely perfect, white boned skeleton of he deer. kinda cool.
My first thought was... Bambi