abstract for road kills of animals and its ecological consequences
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Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles on highways. It has increasingly become the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how it can be mitigated. Some roadkill can also be eaten.
Causes:
A study in Ontario, Canada in 1996 found many reptiles killed on portions of the road where vehicle tires do not usually pass over, which led to the inference that some drivers intentionally run over reptiles. To verify this hypothesis, research in 2007 found that 2.7% of drivers intentionally hit reptile decoys masquerading as snakes and turtles. "Indeed, several drivers were observed speeding up and positioning their vehicles to hit the reptiles".Male drivers hit the reptile decoys more often than female drivers. On a more compassionate note, 3.4% of male drivers and 3% of female drivers stopped to rescue the reptile decoys.
On roadways where rumble strips are installed to provide a tactile vibration alerting drivers when drifting from their lane, the rumble strips may accumulate road salt in regions where it is used. The excess salt can accumulate and attract both small and large wildlife in search of salt licks; these animals are at great risk of becoming roadkill or causing accidents.
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during the abstract and formation of road, deforestation occurs on large scale, thus trees fell and many ecological consequences takes place like global warming, land degradation, soil erosion etc, also animals got displaced from their habitats (forest).
this is about it's formation now road killing.
as due to much urbanization animal habitats got reduced hence they use to sit on road thus sometimes they causes harms to us and sometimes they meet with an accident thus by roadkill of these their no. is reducing