With the Insurance institute for highway safety reporting a
record 1.5 million vehicle strikes against wildlife annually,
animals are forced to circumnavigate a daily procession of cars,
trucks, SUV’s and more, barreling down highways that run through
habitats in man-made surroundings which in no way resemble their
own. Road mortality, according to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, is a serious threat to 21 federally listed
threatened or endangered species, and a State Farm Insurance
study determined there were 2.4 million collisions between deer
and vehicles between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2009 alone. The
study further revealed that a collision between animal and
vehicle happens somewhere in this country every 26 seconds. In
addition to deer, the vehicular slaughter of elk, moose, bears,
bighorn sheep, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians make up
the grisly statistics, with the human toll approximated at 200
fatalities and 29,000 injuries each year according to the
Federal Highway Administration. Pr