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28 ways to avoid hitting animals that may save your life too!

January 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Reader testifies: these tips work! “Your 28 ways to avoid hitting animals that may save your life too! article saved the life of a squirrel yesterday!” testified California reader Jim Jensvold on September 20,  2018. “What I learned from that article has saved multiple lives,”  Jensvold added.  “Mostly squirrels,  but also coyotes,  bobcats and deer,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Feature Home Bottom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, roadkill

Swallows may have evolved quicker take-off ability in only 30 years

April 10, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Shorter wings help LINCOLN,  Nebraska––Cliff swallows nesting under highway overpasses in southwestern Nebraska appear to have evolved shorter wings in only 30 years to help them avoid colliding with cars,  ornithologists  Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown reported in the March 18,  2013 edition of Current Biology. The  hypothesized adaptation might also help cliff […]

Filed Under: Birds, Wildlife Tagged With: Cliff swallows, evolution, Merritt Clifton, roadkill

Roadkill counts,  1937-2006,  showed longterm decline

January 10, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

City worker logged 5,000 roadkills over 12.5 years MENTOR,  Ohio––Cathy Strah,  a transportation department employee in Mentor,  Ohio,  from 1993 to mid-2006 logged all roadkills collected by city workers,  forwarding her data sheets to me.  Her work,  covering more than 5,000 animal deaths over twelve and a half years,  was the longest-running all-species,  year-round roadkill […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Cathy Strah, Merritt Clifton, roadkill

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