I haven’t followed this thread, or read all 2,600 previous posts, so I don’t know how much in keeping with thread’s tone my post is. I suspect most posts are about the beauty of nature. This one is not, exactly, but what I saw was, undoubtedly, natural.
We were having a family pizza party on the back deck last night, and noticed a unpleasant smell. We looked around and soon found a dead rabbit less than 20 feet from the deck. (Our property, on the North Shore of Boston, is practically overrun by bunnies. My wife hates them.)
[Spoilered for those with delicate sensibilities.]
I got a spade to remove the corpse, and was fascinated/horrified to note that, except for the fur, the remains were essentially liquified and writhing with maggots. I dug a little under the body to get most of the maggots, carried the load to a far edge of the property, and then returned to the site and turned over the earth where the body had laid.
That took care of the smell and we enjoyed our pizza for the rest of the evening.