Opus 2025-667: Roadkill Is Up

I noticed this morning that in the middle of town on a four lane divided roadway there was a dead deer laying on the center divider.  It seems like there’s been a lot of roadkill lately.  I’m not sure why it would seem that way at this point.  Maybe the cold weather dulls their senses.  It could be rutting season.  It could be they heard they are giving out free donuts somewhere.  I don’t know.  All I know is I’m seeing more of these animals that didn’t make it across the road.

What’s really interesting to those of us who are in Texas, and I would imagine it’s that way and other parts of the world, is that many times the roadkill is right in the middle of town.  If you live in a metropolitan area in Southern California or in downtown New York or something like that, you probably would have no idea what I’m talking about, but in our town there are places where you can drive through and you have to constantly be on the lookout because these deer are just wandering around.  They know they can’t be hunted.  They know their lives are sacred.  And so they’re very bold.  What they don’t understand is that the car could kill them too.

So why so much roadkill?  It is one of those great unanswered questions of life.

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