Journal of Forensic Medicine

Department for Homicide, Sexual Offenses and Offenses Against Public Safety, Croatian Ministry of I, Croatia

Publications

• Case Report   
  Selective Behavior of Rodents When Feeding On A Corpse: A Case Report
  Author(s): Antun Ferenčić*, Krešimir Pogačić, Davor Mayer and Vedrana Petrovečki
  
  Post-mortem animal activity is an important factor to consider when investigating the death of outdoor corpses. Many predatory and scavenger animals can attack human bodies and expose them to complete destruction, and the dead person's bones and possessions can be spread around a large area because of animal involvement. This fact complicates the investigation both during the scene inspection and at the autopsy. In this case report, we present a rare phenomenon in which during an animal attack on a human corpse all of the internal thoracic organs were eaten except for one lung affected by lobar pneumonia. We report about rats that found refuge in the body of the deceased during the relatively cold spring period, which acted as their hiding place in addition to the source of food. Such selective activity by rats has left us a section of one.. Read More»
  

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