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Chiefly, it's being eaten by bacteria that break the tissue down into far simpler compounds including water, ammonia and carbon-dioxide, and the element carbon.

The process may be helped by larger decomposer organisms such as various invertebrate and vertebrate scavengers, or fungi, although rather indirectly.

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