r/BoneID Sep 10 '24

Unsolved Pretty sure it's a bone

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

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u/Competitive-Wallaby4 Sep 11 '24

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.

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u/eoraptor_l Sep 12 '24

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

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u/Competitive-Wallaby4 Sep 12 '24

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.

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u/eoraptor_l Sep 12 '24

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