Caught in the Headlights. Eliza Murphy.
by Murphy, Eliza; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 24Science. Publisher: High Country News, 2005ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Found objects (Art) | Nature -- Effect of human beings on | Roadkill | Roads -- Design and construction | Wildlife conservationDDC classification: 050 Summary: "As I drove home late one night, my headlights illuminated a motionless lump in my lane. It was a red fox. This was no place to end a life. I stopped, got out of my car and lifted the body. It was a recent kill, warm and softer than anything I had ever touched. No wonder people wear fur coats. They ought to wear them outside in, with nothing on underneath....After the fox came a porcupine. That, too, I removed from the road. Then squirrels, raccoons, snakes, frogs, weasels, mink, songbirds, chipmunks, even worms. It seemed undignified to leave them; they deserved a more honorable end than being smeared across the asphalt." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article describes the author's travels as she studies roadkill, meeting people who study "road ecology" and who seek to lessen the slaughter of animals on the highways.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Caught in the Headlights, Feb. 7, 2005; pp. 8+.
"As I drove home late one night, my headlights illuminated a motionless lump in my lane. It was a red fox. This was no place to end a life. I stopped, got out of my car and lifted the body. It was a recent kill, warm and softer than anything I had ever touched. No wonder people wear fur coats. They ought to wear them outside in, with nothing on underneath....After the fox came a porcupine. That, too, I removed from the road. Then squirrels, raccoons, snakes, frogs, weasels, mink, songbirds, chipmunks, even worms. It seemed undignified to leave them; they deserved a more honorable end than being smeared across the asphalt." (HIGH COUNTRY NEWS) This article describes the author's travels as she studies roadkill, meeting people who study "road ecology" and who seek to lessen the slaughter of animals on the highways.
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