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Hi! Chris
I'm afraid your meager road-kill count would not
even raise an eye-brow here in downtown New Norfolk, the road-kill
capital of Australia. I counted yesterday on a 1-6 klm ( the miracle mile)
stretch of road, a count of 2- roos, 4-padamelons, 6-possoms,
3-native-hens, 1-raven( a raretiey ) and a splattering of bits and pieces
everywhere.
So you can see that your low tally wouldn't
raise an eye-brow here, although I will admit that we did hit a bit of a purple
patch on that section of road. This particular 100 klm per hour section of road
consists of 2 passing lanes which makes it 4 lanes wide, constucted
on a long blind curve on which to surprise any of the local fauna stupid or
unlucky enough to try to cross over this particular section. And of course this
being on a passing lane section, entitles everyone to increase their speed
by 40%, whether the need to speed is required or not, thus ensuring that nothing
but the fleetest, survive. Most of these deaths occur at night when there is
very little traffic on this section of road, so I can only surmise that the
majority of these kills are intentional as there must be more than enough room to miss these poor
creatures.
cheers
bob rusk
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