Originally posted by waterfall Possum presents as road kill. Road kill of other species offer an entire new universe for smoked meat, I.e. bacon. Although I have read that road kill armadillos in Texas should be shunned because of a wierd disease they harbor.
I have never seen a road killed crow and they use rural highways as their supermarket.
I travel a lot in my work. As such I see lots of roadkill, in fact I am responsible for some of it.
Bambi committed suicide on the front of my truck out in Wyoming a few years back. Many people said I should have harvested the backstrap from her. There wasn't enough left to harvest, as she exploded like a water balloon. This encounter with nature resulted in over $5,000 of damage to the truck and had me sitting in a motel room out in Buffalo, Wyoming for several days.
The frontal surfaces of my truck(s) have served as the terminus of the existence of literally hundreds of birds, including a crow or two, and once even a raven (a cousin of the crow). The crows and ravens usually expire as they are trying to get out of the way of my truck as I try to straddle the delicious remains they are munching on.
Oh, I also have hit a red tailed hawk and and owl, and once came so close to a bald eagle that he dirtied my windshield in an effort to lighten his load and escape an untimely demise.
On US-54 near Nara Vista, New Mexico I came close to running over a rattlesnake that was about 10 feet long. As I passed by it the thing struck at the tires on my trailer, and experience that ended his life.
Down in Louisiana I have come close to squishing an alligator or two, but each time they have been spared to continue on in search of chickens, dogs and small children.
And of course I have eliminated many possum from the gene pool. But there is rarely much left. When the tire of a big truck rolls over something that small, it doesn't leave much more than a grease stain on the pavement.
There have been many other deaths along the way, but traveling along at the speeds one does on the interstate many times it is merely a flash of fur or feathers, and the thrashing of a rapidly diminishing creature can be seen in the mirror.
I guess when a person drives more than 130,000 miles in a year much carnage will ensue.