🎶 Waddling along near automobiles..
The pavement is warming up. Every year, Porcupines line the shoulder of the highways, run over by drivers. Could have been a child, drive more careful. Also, next month is Turtle season. #DriveResponsibly #Porcupine #Nature
@NormanDunbar @donhawkins
In many places, they have those bridges or tunnels for big animals, but not little ones. And, you can't coral a Porcupine, but I did make a pet of one, but he refused to come out of that tree, so I had to take his leash off.
Do you know what it costs, and takes to get a bridge or tunnel? In BC, Canada, I encountered something close to my heart, Turtle migration. A big boy pond on the right, and a girl pond on the left, and 100 turtles crossing a highway every year and not even a warning sign. And people go out of their way to hit them on the shoulder. Not even a sign or speed reduction from full highway speed. I wrote some minister at the time, Natural Resources or such, about what I saw on one day, maybe 50 turtles squashed. Heartbreaking
@Pierrette @donhawkins @NormanDunbar
DId you know, if you kiss one, they turn into a handsome prince and some make you hallucinate LOL
@Pierrette @donhawkins @NormanDunbar
Toads are OK but have you ever kissed a sailor ;P
@Pierrette @donhawkins @Rasta I used to have four North American Bullfrogs, which I raised from tadpoles. I kept them for years. When they eventually died, I had them made into a pair of open toad sandals! 😀
Ok, I'm joking about the sandals, not about my frogs. I'm a big fan of reptiles and amphibians.
@Pierrette @NormanDunbar @donhawkins
I do that with turtles. I brought one in my motorbike saddlebag from Ontario once
@Rasta @NormanDunbar I dunno the cost, & of course that is always the essential element.
I am in Oregon & here is a link to Oregon’s “official” approach
https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/GeoEnvironmental/Pages/Wildlife.aspx
You know, you see real money and effort in Oregon, and no consistancy in the next state. We were disturbed, because we'd never seen possums, to see them dead every half mile from Missouri to Arkansas, and guess which dead one ahead is a possum and which is a cooter turtle
Yes, there's a lot of people deliberately hitting deer. Many of them die, because deer cause a lot of damage in a strike. But, I;m not telling anyone if I hit one
@Rasta @donhawkins My step dad hit one, a Roe, at speed in the old A9 road in Scotland. Wrote off the deer sadly, but just knocked out a headlight capsule in his Renault 30.
Lucky lucky man.
Rasta
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