Moose are the big killers, here in AK. Worse than a cow owing to their long legs.
https://mythresults.com/alaska-special
Me too! Where I live it’s mainly skunks and armadillos.
Coyotes also. I see one or more dead on the side of the road almost every time I'm on the highway.
Regional. I see more skunks snd porcupines than I’ll ever see armadillos. More bears, for that matter.
The Angel William was a good angel, but...not talented in any way, and had no experience in wildlife creation workflows except for designing rats and cockroaches, but...when you need a body, you need a body. The Angel William might get it right this time. So God contracted Angel William to design and implement The Squirrel. And by and large, Angel William did a pretty good job of it.
Squirrels were fast. They had enough intelligence to improvise. They were athletic and durable. The reproduced prodigiously. But the six-day deadline was fast approaching, and when The Angel William wrote the algorithm to avoid cars, well, he was more interested in getting the code installed to meet the deadline than he was in doing it right. Besides, he knew the schedule for the appearance of cars was long off in the future, so squirrels could learn what they needed to know in that time frame.
As we know, it didn't work out that way, and when squirrels began dying in great numbers on roadways, it came to the attention of God. He focused on this deficiency, and time and time again, he would see squirrels blindly rush out into oncoming traffic, only to have them appear at his feet a second or two later. This was not good. Then, as he watched, he saw another squirrel dash right between the wheels of a car and improbably appear safely on the other side, and as God's eyebrows rose in astonishment, the squirrel reversed course and ran right back under the wheels of the trailing car, and suddenly appeared at his feet, where it scurried away to the nearest heavenly tree.
God didn't explode in anger, as that was not his style, but he did ask calmly "Okay. Who designed The Squirrel?"
An Angel with a clipboard says "It was Angel William, my Lord."
I have often wondered if, when observing this earth in action, that God delivered unto himself a facepalm. If he ever did, it must have been then.
Also, do Mormon Crickets count?
So they extrapolated fewer than 2,000 animal deaths into more than 129 million. Sounds like extremely rigorous science. I’m sure they considered all of the various factors that could affect the accuracy of their extrapolation.
Of that list the only ones that I feel bad about are the opossums. Squirrels are just rats with cute fluffy tails. Deer reproduce faster than they die. Rats who cares? They eat the wires in your car. F the rats. Raccoons are not nice. When I see a dead squirrel or dead rat or dead raccoon, I rejoice. Dead cats? Cars are the only predator for cats.
No wild hogs?
Squirrels? Not according to the Geico commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z6ixrfKgO0
I don’t understand why animals insist on running in front of cars all the time. Especially squirrels. They see you coming but they run out in front of your car anyhow.
Squirrels, possums and coons, in that order where I live.
I’m very surprised by the Rats in the list. I have NEVER seen a rat that has been run over by a car in my entire 60 year life. And I’ve lived in five distict geographical areas in the USA (northwest - Oregon, midwest - Iowa, far south - Florida, southeast - North Carolina, and southwest- New Mexico).
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
To prove to the possum it could be done!
Their extrapolation “method” was a joke so I didn’t get far into the article.
were we live its deer....rats with antlers..
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.
Most frequent road kill that I’ve seen are RINOs.
