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Why do badgers always get run over ?

Are they suicidal which makes them slowly walk right in front of cars and vehicles which are noisy enough to warn them of oncoming danger ?


    




rahlyd swamp muffin
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road kill yum.


Mr X
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The green cross code isn't mandatory in their schools.
Also Major Depression being prevalent throughout the entire Badger World could also account for it.


butterfly
they don't look both ways before they cross


Jake
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I've never seen a dead badger, or any badger for that matter.


dancer5224
They are relatively blind, and downward focused, and have no clue what an auto is. Speed is not part of their existence. They are focused on their stomachs, and they have no clue about the rest of the world if it isn't edible. Their sense of smell is extremely acute and far better than ours. It is possible that their range of hearing is not pitched the same as ours, so a whistling sound for the vehicles like they use for deer may be more effective. Think of them as underground warriors!

We have the same thing with armadillos! Even have cartoon jokes on T-shirts! We call them possum on the half shell!

Two rows of armadillos on either side of the road. A truck is coming soon, and one group yells "Red rover, red rover, Let Shirley come over!"


techbankguy
Guess they're too slow......


Al
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Badgers are black, with a white strip up the middle.....

take a guess :o)


erndog1001
Probably for the same reason that all kinds of animals get killed in this manner.Bc they ran in front of somebody's oncoming car....lol


Bear Man Chicks #1
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Because they are in the road!


¡Sarita!
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hehehe... go to badgerbadgerbadger.com! BADGER!!!!


L G
Cos Badgers think they are pretty tough and that they can kick the cars butt.


Gloomyguy
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They don't, otherwise there wouldn't be any. Some do- and hedgehogs, wild ponies, humans and traffic cops feet.


andy F7
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animals follow traditional trails, when they build a road across the animals usual route, they do not make the adjustment for this, in most eco friendly countries they have an animal escape tunnel under the roads so they can continue on their way safely. animals ignore these in times of hunger and as they feed on road kill, they end up the same!


James
maybe they just like being ran over! lol


Bardic
Badgers are not the brightest, and they're emphatically single-minded. If they're going to go in a certain direction they will, not matter what. If you're in the way they'll go through you rather than around . . .

Buddy of mine tried to put the wheels either side of a badger once, hoping he'd go over it and miss it. Wrong! Took the sump right out of a 3.5 Rover V8, wrecked the engine and to add injury to insult the badger got up and walked on.


JetDoc
If they "always" got run over, then there would soon be none left to get run over. Obviously, that's not the case, so it seems like badgers are the same as skunks, opossums, raccoons and all the other little wildlife critters who are trying to cope with the big bad humans in their nasty highway machines... Too slow to survive!


Samsonite
cars are fast and neither the car or the animal kno which way the other will go.


Fashionmanic
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because they blend in with the zebra crossings!


Anti theist
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I think it's suicide, before the government sanction a mass slaughter to prevent T.B. in cattle.


michelob86
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Because they can't keep up with Ohio State. ;)


tyme2qill
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they r too slow.


wonderingstar
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they dont all ways get run over some times they make it to the other side, so they can see their flat mate.... Booom Boom !


Muzikman
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Always? is a big word used in this context, and if it were true they'd be extinct, which they are not, therefore you must be wrong.

Thank you very much for the 10 points


CwboyBill
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Badgers? Where the heck do you live? Down here we have to contend with armadillos. They lumber across the road and are appx. the same color as the asphalt, making them impossible to see at night. The roadsides are littered with their carcasses, always on their backs and most holding an empty beer can (thanks to our southern humor and drunk people willing to stop and place one in their little, dead paws..). We also have a problem with gators crossing the roads and getting smacked. Imagine hitting a tree trunk at 40 mph -- ugh. One more item: Q:why did the chicken cross the road? A:To prove to the armadillo that it COULD be done.
I love the south........


anne :)
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ya, or maybe they're just deaf! but i know for a fact that squirrels are suicidal. so watch out and don't run over them, even if they wanna die. :)


johnstonemac
They like the white lines.





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