Posted on 06/04/2024 5:30:47 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Which Animals Are Killed Most Frequently
The numbers are staggering. In 1993, a study completed by 25 schools through New England found 1,923 animal deaths, and the data was then extrapolated by the Animal People Newspaper to reveal the following annual number of kills on the 4.1 million miles of roadways in the United States : 41 million squirrels, 26 million cats, 22 million rats, 19 million opossums, 15 million raccoons, six million dogs, and 350,000 deer. However, there is no clear data on the precise number of animals that are victims of vehicles each year.
Accidents involving larger animals are the most commonly reported, mainly because they typically result in injury or death of vehicle passengers and drivers, damage to cars, and insurance claims. It is estimated anywhere from 80 to 340 million birds also die in the U.S. each year, close to one million animals like like woodchucks, frogs, turtles, snakes, and rabbits, and hundreds of thousands of insects - but these animals are less frequently reported due to their size and the fact they do not cause as much damage.
Squirrels
(Excerpt) Read more at worldatlas.com ...
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
To prove to the possum it could be done!
First Armadillo I ever saw was south of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma was Road kill. 1970. Now they are clear up into Missouri.
Their extrapolation “method” was a joke so I didn’t get far into the article.
were we live its deer....rats with antlers..
A little east of here they call deer “Rats on stilts.”
Especially squirrels. They see you coming but they run out in front of your car anyhow.
I notice they expend a lot of effort zig zagging trying to deke the car - or they just can’t decide which way to go. Sometimes they choose wisely.
Unfortunately, in southwestern Ohio, hawks and coyotes are big predators of house cats.
I lost one to a red tailed hawk a year ago.
And coyotes are filmed on Ring cameras catching cats pretty regularly here.
Just missed a fox on the way home for dinner tonight. Usually, by our house, it’s deer, elk, moose and the occasional bear. Not too many foxes.
Dogs,coyotes,and raptors are also predators of cats.
My little friend of 18 years was carried off by a worthless hawk. Noble bird ,my a$$!.
Creative...and now concerning ha ha
Most frequent road kill that I’ve seen are RINOs.
Yeah armadillos in the South are the big road kill. Oddly people break for turtles and even stop to move them or they would be #2. Everything else is also rans squirells, skunks, possums, raccoons, pigs, alligators, oddly not too many deer. They are everyone’s favorite target up north.
One theory ,at least fot night,is the shadow of the animal created by your headlights triggers a flight response. But running from the shadow means running toward the car...
How should I know? It’s Animal People Newspaper that’s claiming so.
No idea. Didn’t read more than the excerpt.
Opossums are pretty cool even though they’re ugly. Unfortunately, they move too slow to get out of the way. Unfortunately. Democrats tend to move fast enough to get out of the way. :-(
I hit thirteen deer in twenty years but know a fellow who hit five in one year ..with the same car. Each time insurance repaired the car as the damage did not meet criteria for declaring it “totalled”.
It's like colliding with a brick wall that's on stilts.
Hmmmmm, there auto be a law that moose have Mansfield barriers...
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