UK roadkill experts report that badgers are “the most flattened mammal” on British roads.
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UK roadkill experts report that badgers are “the most flattened mammal” on British roads.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...latter-a8991211.html
What’s the local winner by you?
Birds. They are committing suicide at an alarming rate here. I thought we had a deal…
Squirrels.
Here in SE USA it would either be armadillos or deer. Lots of em flattened on the side of the road. Deer are so numerous i hate riding my moto at dawn or dust. I’ll gladly shoot em and eat em–just don’t want to tangle with one while i’m on my moto. No Beuno 
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UK roadkill experts report that badgers are “the most flattened mammal” on British roads.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...latter-a8991211.html
What’s the local winner by you?
Rabbits and squirrels here in Littleton, CO. When I was in Texas, it was usually armadillos.
As measured by quantity or flatness?
Many years ago I live in Wyoming and went to some little town out in the middle of nowhere. There was a prairie dog town just on the outskirts of town. I bet there were 50+ dead prairie dogs on one 100 yard section of road.
Given the numbers I see flattened there must be 18 million raccoons per square mile around me.
Kind of sad to see a whole line of babies dead. They tend to cross the road very slowly and all together when they are little and you lose the whole batch.
As measured by quantity or flatness?
lol let’s go with most frequently flattened. The flattest in my experience have been frogs and snakes
Got to be porcupines in Maine if we’re talking number of dead animals not flatness.
In the metro area there doesn’t seem to be a heck of a lot, but if I had to pick something, then the magpie (bird).
On the shared commuter paths I occasionally see rats with a 20-25 mm rut through their back.
Out on the country road, easily kangaroos.
As evidenced while pedaling. In northern Va. suburbia it is squirrels. As soon as one crosses the Potomac and enters Washington, it is overwhelmingly rats.
Toads and frogs flatten out quite well.
For a year round average here, it’s got to be a tie between raccoons and opossums. But there’s a 4-6 week springtime window where snapping turtles are at the top of the heap on country roads. I feel bad for those ugly buggers, so I stop my bike rides and get as many off the road as I possibly can. The biggest one I scooted off the road this year had to go 25+ pounds and wanted to rip my arm off, so fortunately I found a massive limb with sufficient strength and length to sweep it off the road and still be back several feet.
a sign I’ve seen in Germany – boarded over except for a couple weeks every spring.
Snapping turtles are nasty bastids, good for you.
They could install those signs here with the frog and a turtle. Fortunately it seems more of the frogs make it on the country roads around here.
A couple of years ago I did create road kill with my bike. A suicide squirrel couldn’t decide whether or not it was going to cross the road, so I slowed down but kept rolling. He bolted to the side of the road and in response I sped up, while at that same moment he decided to run straight at me, getting his head whacked in my bladed Zipp spokes, flung a couple of feet back. I stopped to assess my bike and check the squirrel; a spurt of blood was shooting out of his nose with every breath. He wasn’t going to make it. I had to help put him out of his misery. The quickest thing I could do was smash his skull with one blow from a large rock. This was in an upper middle class neighborhood I cut through, so right at the moment I hoisted the rock over head about to give squirrel one swift goodbye, a Cadillac Escalade slows down and stops by me. “Is everything OK? Do you need help?,” asked a soccer mom fresh from the salon, her ~14 year old daughter in the passenger seat. “Nope, just hit this squirrel and need to put him out of his misery. You might want to drive off before I smash his skull, probably don’t want to see that.” Despite being on a $7k bike and full winter bike kit, I’m certain I’ve never looked more country than I did at that moment, but it was necessary to keep squirrel from suffering for another 20 minutes & usher the little warrior into Valhalla.
a sign I’ve seen in Germany – boarded over except for a couple weeks every spring.
Snapping turtles are nasty bastids, good for you.
In Japan, I see at least one flattened cat a week.
You can pick them up by the tail.
Most? I have no idea but around here skunks, raccoons and squirrels would have to be up near the top of the list.
Having said that I am pretty sure that I obliterated a frog two nights ago. I saw it hopping through my lights.
Mostly squirrels around here, but I did rescue a snapping turtle from the side of the road two weekends ago. I can see why they get that name too… he wasn’t happy about me picking him up at all!