SEGARAN RAMALU NAIDOO
Many possibilities.  We, in fact it is very rare to recover an entire skeleton especially on the surface of the ground.  At about two to three weeks after the successive wave of insect activity that ...(indistinct) the soft tissue of the corps, it leaves individual bones amenable to predation by carnivores and predators and rodents, so the usual picture is that you have to scour the entire veld for about a radius of a kilometre and you might in fact pick up the bones taken away by predators.