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
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Lizzards. Poor things.
And insects. How many gillion get whacked by automotive grills?
Maybe they’re holographic squirrels or shape shifters? I do think you’re on to something. Must be some genetic anomaly with those plague carrying fur balls
We have more skunks and coons. Maybe all the squirrels already bit the last Michelin’s and the environment has become more symbiotic here?
“Love bugs” fer sure ..
Not many armadillos In New England.
Skunks, Deer, Elk in that order around here. Followed by cats in town, and rabbits or maybe porcupines or rattlesnakes out of town.
Don’t often see dogs... I don’t know if it is because they rarely get hit, or because their owners go looking for them and collect the carcass.
Only 350,00 deer? I doubt that. In the past 10 years I’ve killed six or seven myself.
A lady once told me she was convinced armadillos were born dead in the middle of the road because that’s only time she sees them...lol
Humans don’t count...?
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