According to Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People Newspaper, the following number of animals are being killed by motor vehicles in the United States annually:
41 million squirrels
26 million cats
22 million rats
19 million opossums
15 million raccoons
6 million dogs
350,000 deer
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Very interesting statistics.... I was compelled to write because I love animals, and I know that many are run down at night when, in their innocence and cloaked by the darkness, they wander into the roads... Some are targets of thoughtless drivers..... I wonder how best to interpret these figures, and how best to use them.... Thanks for the information Ivan...
ReplyDeleteOn my way back from a hike in NH I saw 5 roadkills... The evening before while driving towards a restaurant half an hour away from the place I was staying, we saw a fox, a raccoon, and a mouse cross the road. Thankfully, we didn't hit any of them. Roads are major killers in the animal world.
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