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Was hiking through a canyon in Arizona last month en route to a hotspring when we came upon a strange place indeed.
A campfire circle had been built and in it were the bones of some dog-sized animal. It had been picked clean except for this leg here (photo attached).
There was no skull present or I would have photographed the head and teeth.
At the time i believed it was probably a campfire where a hunter had killed or eaten a javelina or peccary (wild pig native to the desert southwest) but peccaries have hooves as do all pigs. This has hard pads on the foot with claws apparently fixed out and un-retractable. Brown, short fur.
I don't know what it could be. Dogs, I think ( don't own one) have softer pads and claws are not so big.
Also, whoever ate it may not have roasted it based on the un-charred nature of the leg?
So was this a case of - 1) some unknown person, built a campfire, dismembered and ate (raw) the unknown animal at the fire, or 2) the campfire predated the remains, and some unknown predator had fortuitously killed and consuimed the majority of the unknown animal at the campfire site at a later date.
Sorry there is no scale object. Like I said the rib cage and limbs were about "dog sized". The remaining foot and limb visible here was about 1 foot/30 cm long to where the fur ends and bone begins.
A campfire circle had been built and in it were the bones of some dog-sized animal. It had been picked clean except for this leg here (photo attached).
There was no skull present or I would have photographed the head and teeth.
At the time i believed it was probably a campfire where a hunter had killed or eaten a javelina or peccary (wild pig native to the desert southwest) but peccaries have hooves as do all pigs. This has hard pads on the foot with claws apparently fixed out and un-retractable. Brown, short fur.
I don't know what it could be. Dogs, I think ( don't own one) have softer pads and claws are not so big.
Also, whoever ate it may not have roasted it based on the un-charred nature of the leg?
So was this a case of - 1) some unknown person, built a campfire, dismembered and ate (raw) the unknown animal at the fire, or 2) the campfire predated the remains, and some unknown predator had fortuitously killed and consuimed the majority of the unknown animal at the campfire site at a later date.
Sorry there is no scale object. Like I said the rib cage and limbs were about "dog sized". The remaining foot and limb visible here was about 1 foot/30 cm long to where the fur ends and bone begins.
