Hedge hogs

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It's estimated that 100000 hedge hogs are killed on UK roads every year

I like hedge hogs

 

[ReJect]

On roads that aren’t busy you would think drivers could avoid driving over hedgehogs on most occasions they cross in front of them. It is not as if they are very fast runners.

 

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Trent University in Nottingham are carry g out research as to exactly how many hedge hogs are being killed on roads

And aims to assess which are most at risk and if road tunnels could help??

 

[Mottie]

I’ve done a couple of punctures on cars that have had hedgehog spikes in them.

 

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Tis sad
The toll on. Wildlife caused by cars ect

This week I have seen 4 dead badgers on the roads plus at least 3 foxes??

 

[Bodd]

Australian animals are amongst the dummest.. .... More than likely the drivers are Dummer...
It's incredible the amount of road kill there is on Australia's roads

 

[JohnD]

Australia has no large native predators* so the animals have little instinct to run away from danger.

Roads have not yet existed long enough for evolution to change this.

*dingoes, humans, cats and motor vehicles are not native

 

[Bodd]

Australia has no large native predators*

Snakes large and poisonous lurk....
Crocodiles.
Wild boars,
Monitor Lizards.
The wedge-tailed eagle
Lots of other Eagles
Dingoes.

Non indigenous animals do eat native species.

 

[Munroast]

Snakes large and poisonous lurk....
Crocodiles.
Wild boars,
Monitor Lizards.
The wedge-tailed eagle
Lots of other Eagles
Dingoes.

Non indigenous animals do eat native species.

and in the case of the Cane Toad - they do their devastation by being eaten.

 

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Place we work at the resident. Saw a pure white squirrel

They say it is very veryv rare a type of albino red squirrel

Had wild life photographers in hives camped out in her garden / woodland

They got pics of it

 

[Munroast]

I wonder how autonomous cars will deal with wild life, I always do my best to avoid animals and birds, but would an autonomous car slow down, or would you be allowed to choose through some user-setting how much you give a dam.

But back to the OP, yes, very very sad to see the demise of the hedge-hog

 

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Well at least they have stopped or are stopping the culling of badgers

 

[Ihavenojob]

It's estimated that 100000 hedge hogs are killed on UK roads every year

I like hedge hogs

They're probably looking for a hedge, not many about now.