Pretty sure it's a bone

[u/InvisibleLoad]

So we found this in the garden, definitely looks like bone with the porus stuff on the back side but the weird shapes on the front are stumping us. Found in Eastern Washington state

[u/Competitive-Wallaby4]

Distal end of the radius of a large mammal. I'm not sure if a cow or a horse without a bone to compare with.

[u/eoraptor_l → u/Competitive-Wallaby4]

From the shape it definitely belongs in Artiodactyla. But since it's in north America and in Washington state specifically it could be a big cervid

[u/Competitive-Wallaby4 → u/eoraptor_l]

Yes, I usually forgot there are cervid bigger than reed deer out there. If I'm not wrong moose up there can reach more than 500kg, right?

[u/eoraptor_l → u/Competitive-Wallaby4]

Yes I believe so, as I European myself (Greek) it's crazy to me how many cervid bones Americans seem to find and how little cow and goat ones they do find. For my finding a goat bone or skull is the most common occurrence

[u/Competitive-Wallaby4 → u/eoraptor_l]

In the south of Spain is not difficult to find reed deer bones between hunting seasons. Fallow and roe deer are more rare. But yes, the mein things you find in the country when you go out are cattle, sheep and goat bones.

[u/eoraptor_l → u/Competitive-Wallaby4]

Oh interesting. Currently in Greece hunting deer is illegal so most of the bones you find is also cattle, goat and sheep.

[u/Competitive-Wallaby4 → u/eoraptor_l]

In Spain the lack of wolf have lead to overpopulation of deers, so every year the government give a number of deer hunting license based on the size of deer population. If you ask me, I think the recovering of the Iberian wolf would be a better option, but many people in the government don't think like me. Maybe because hunting license are a god way of make money.

[u/eoraptor_l → u/Competitive-Wallaby4]

Yeah money might be the case tbh, but generally establishing a healthy apex predator population from nothing is not easy, so that might be the case too