Time-lapse video clip of a rabbit decomposing over 8 days, compressed down to one minute. It was produced in the forest behind the Digital Frog International office, using a rabbit that was found by the road already dead.

We produced the video for a forest ecology program that was never completed as way of demonstrating natural decomposition in a manner that words alone could not describe. It can be a bit disturbing for some, but quite dramatically shows how quickly the process happens, the various insects and organisms who help in decomposition, and goes a long way to explaining why you don’t often see the carcasses of dead animals in the woods–they don’t last long.

For more information on this and other biology and ecology programs, visit our web site at http://www.digitalfrog.com