Strangely Immortal Pumpkins

Hello my green thumb friends! I come today with an interesting situation I havent seen before and thought you all may have an idea.

These two pumpkins you see are both from September and October of last year. One was a birthday gift and the other was meant for carving but I just never got around to it. So these two beauties sat in my room for about 3 months before I decided to put them outside to let either animals or mother nature take care of them.

It has now been about 3 1/2 months and nothing has happened to either of them. Ive checked both and the most ive seen are a few tiny bite marks on the bottom of the big pumpkin but not a scratch otherwise.

This isnt the first time ive gotten rid of old pumpkins in my local forest either so I am genuinely surprised that these both havent been eaten or rotted away at this point. I know for a fact we have animals around that like to eat pumpkin too so its just strange to me.

Do ant of you have any ideas or thoughts?

(Also sorry if ecology is the wrong tag, I thought it might be most relevant since im curious why animals aren't touching it 🤔)