These images are making the rounds without any info. So here’s the only info that was posted with the original photos in a Facebook group called “New Mexico Shed and Game Hunters” by Henry A. Mondragon Jr. on April 18, 2016 - “Friend’s dad was out hiking and stumbled onto this, thought I’d share!” Malinda Marie Martinez commented - “This picture was taken in the Zuni Mountains. It was my father who found it. You could tell he tried to get out his horns were busted up pretty good.” She also mentioned that her Dad kept the part of the antler that was missing.
Believe it or not what you see here in not that uncommon. A truly horrifying way to die without a doubt. Although there is a chance he could have died rather quickly from suffocation, from the ribcage getting compressed. Still not a great way to die but not slowly suffering at least. Cattle, moose, bison, sheep, deer and other animals have been found like this as well. Even fossilized. RIP poor beast.
