Observations

Over the past two weeks, we have watched a pork shoulder decompose. First, to start off with, we placed the pork shoulder in front of the school and covered it so no outside animals could get inside and tamper with it. Almost immediately after we placed it here, it began to attract flies to it. A few days later we went outside to make more observations and saw that maggots had already began to develop and crawl around on the shoulder, as well as bees, and flies being present as well. We placed the thermometer in it to take the temperature and record any change, and it was during this process that we realized it had begun to smell. We went back outside a day or two later and it began to smell very badly, again we took pictures both close up and from a distance, and collected maggot from the shoulder to analyze. The shoulder at this point had become very hard and rough, almost like leather. 

-Zack