There is one other place I know of you are likely to read about composting animals. The humanure handbook website forum. It wasn't till I started humanure composting that I learned how to get a really good hot compost pile that would easily handle rotting carcass and control smell and other animals digging it up. So what have we composted. I really can't even count the bones and scraps of animals we have eaten since we always compost all food scraps that don't go to the chickens or worm bins. It is a firm rule here to avoid putting anything stinky in the trash can. So, animal bodies in our compost bin lately. 3 sick chickens we didn't want to make the rest of the flock sick. Any dead squirrels we find around the house. 12 rats we caugh And all fish parts that the chickens don't get, I've found that burying fish parts causes critters to dig up the yard or whatever plant I put over it so composting seems to be the best way for use to take care of it. I agree that this is an advanced composting thread. No one who is not confident of their ability to manage a hot compost pile should be putting dead bodies in it.

Sue it sounds like deer. In the spring they ate my leaves as they were emerging. But, last week, just the buds on one of my dl's, my strawberry plants and leaves off my cherry trees. Didn't touch my hostas right next to the DL or any of my roses. I was lucky they only ate the buds off one of my noids and the buds from one scape on the dl next to it. There were hoof prints in the mud where I had watered the night before so I'm positive it was deer. I mix 2 eggs with a gallon of water and mist my dl's once every other week. Seems to be working.... Knock on wood. Andrea

It's a Sea Cucumber, an invertebrate that feeds on decaying organic matter. There are many different species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber

I think the magic scientists who make the physiologies match could deal with the strings. As it is, most guitar strings are synthetic and/or metal. Harp strings are also made of nylon and/or metal. Piano strings are metal. Violin strings are also mostly synthetic and/or metal, though sheep's gut is still used sometimes for authentic historical sounds. The sticking point is the bow. Current synthetic bow filaments are too smooth and not as well liked as real horsehair, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't be made better. It's just not worthwhile to develop specially to imitate horsehair while horses are still being slaughtered in sufficient quantity to provide the real thing.