roadkill
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thumb|The battered remains of a roadkilled White-tailed deer|deer on [[South Carolina Highway 170 by the Chechessee River in South Carolina, US]] thumb|Wide-ranging large carnivores like this [[bear are particularly vulnerable to becoming roadkill.]] Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated.
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- History
- Causes
- Intentional collisions
- Road salt accumulations
- Distribution and abundance
- Species affected
- Insects
- Scavengers
- Research
- Roadkill observation projects
- State wildlife roadkill identification guide
- Prevention
- Large animals
- Small animals
- Night driving
- Wildlife crossings
- Canopy crossings
- Escape routes
- Fencing
- Self-driving cars
- Disposal
- Eating roadkill
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thumb|The battered remains of a roadkilled White-tailed deer|deer on [[South Carolina Highway 170 by the Chechessee River in South Carolina, US]] thumb|Wide-ranging large carnivores like this [[bear are particularly vulnerable to becoming roadkill.]] Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated.
==History== thumb|Roadkill caracal in [[Afedena (exclosure), Ethiopia]] Essentially non-existent before the advent of mechanized transport, roadkill is associated with increasing automobile speed in the early 20th century. In 1920, naturalist Joseph Grinnell wrote of his observations in the state of California that "this is a relatively new source of fatality; and if one were to estimate the entire mileage of such roads in the state, the mortality must mount into the hundreds and perhaps thousands every 24 hours."