This would be common sense, which to me doesn't seem so common anymore (or was it ever? hmmm) As a result of this, people who lack knowledge of seemingly very basic facts often turn situations into something they are not and sometimes into things they definitely should not be!
(Oh, and if that sounded somewhat rantish well..... It should have because it was.)
This lack of common sense can arise when dealing with animals, even dead ones.
Death can be a fascinating subject. Although we don’t always want to admit it, death is around us everywhere all the time, not to mention everything that is alive dies at some point - sometimes sooner sometimes much later - but either way, the end result is exactly the same.
What happens then you might ask.
Well the only thing I can tell you with certainty is what happens in the physical sense (all other aspects aside, we don't have time for that here). I am not a death expert by a long shot so although I can't tell you the exact stages of decomposition in their entirety I can tell you that without being frozen or preserved in some other way, soon after death, the previously mentioned word that many may hate but is nonetheless real - decomposition - does inevitably set in.
As I said before things (animals) die everywhere all the time so it is expected that humans - live ones obviously (because like it or not they die everywhere all the time too) come upon them from time to time.
Most of the time these are common creatures that are found in the area, and people know what they are and don't give them a second thought.
But again the very fascinating and dreaded decomposition comes into play and does funny things that people don't often expect or don't consider because common sense is scarce.
And then the speculation begins.
In recent times I know of a few cases - most notably involving several raccoons and a sloth. (I don't know if it was a two-toed or three-toed) These animals and then somehow ended up in water. After spending some time like this they then washed ashore in places where people stumbled upon them. Now, not only was decomposition well advanced but water on top of all this is known to do funny things, whether it is to dead bodies or whatever else happens to be floating around in it at any given time.
Then what can occur is that when people come upon a corpse of a very well-known and even common animal - but don't stop to consider this fact when deciding what it may be – they blow the situation out of proportion in terms of coming up with wild speculations and theories that have no basis.
Decomposition can do funny things, the most obvious being changing the color of the skin, hair falling out, and appendages falling off. This obviously can change the appearance of what something looked like in life. But so much that people immediately start with the whole conspiracy stuff? I find that to be silly.
After all it wouldn't hurt people to think logically, even if common sense is not coming back to stay anytime soon.
Again any comments are much appreciated and in this case I will leave it to you to figure out what the creature is in the photo. Not until later will I give you an answer and another story to go with it.
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