Dead Badgers

[Fnaar]

On the rural roads round these parts I occasionally find a dead badger by the side of the road, hit by a vehicle. Anyways, on yesterday's ride, I found 3, all about 10 yards apart, who seemed to have no obvious signs of injury... suspecting foul play, I phoned the RSPCA, who sent a chap out to investigate... he found them, and phoned me to say all 3 must have been hit by a vehicle together... unusual, I'd have thought... I suspect a conspiracy involving UFOs, lizard people and probably Keith Chegwin.

 

[rich p]

I did read somewhere that farmers sometimes kill them and dump them on the roadside to hide the blame.
It may be apocryphal

 

[mr Mag00]

rich p it is true, i will try to find the source but i read somewhere about a group who were getting corpses xray'd and many contained shot and had not been hit by vehicles

 

[buddha]

There's one on a local road that's getting bigger. It's been there for the last few days at least. Strangely it seems to have changed position every time I've been pass. Definitely don't want to be there when it goes pop!

One the same road, a few years ago, there was a flattened badger that had dried out in the sun. One day I somehow forgot what it was and rode over it

 

[MarkF]

I did read somewhere that farmers sometimes kill them and dump them on the roadside to hide the blame.
It may be apocryphal

That explains it then. Last week in the Dales I saw plenty of dead foxes on the verges, freshly expired, plump, not flat, no visible signs of injury

 

[Gerry Attrick]

There are generally far too many badgers about, a result of over-protection for the last twenty or so years. This is resulting in the spread of bovine tb and an increase in the numbers killed and injured on the road. It is high time for a cull.

 

[mr Mag00]

yh after all they are the only species spreading Bovine Tb

 

[Jane Smart]

I passed a dead badger at the side of the road just a few weeks ago

 

[vernon]

Sounds they are a bit like buses don't see any for ages then three turn up at once!

Dead badgers are not as common as they used to be in my neck of the woods. I used to classify my audaxes by the number of badgers that I'd see on a 100km ride. A three badger ride was quite rare, a two badger ride less rare and I'd be surprised if I completed a nil badger ride.

In the Carmargue, I got really excited when I saw my first coypu roadkill. The excitement and novelty wore off when the body count reached ten in fifteen kilometres or so and the compulsion to keep count died with the eleventh coypu.

 

[johnnyh]

oh, so the ones led at the side of the road are dead.... I thought they were sunbathing!

 

[02GF74]

i saw one on sunday - its jawas exposed looked much like a grizzly .... so are badgers members of the bear family?

 

[radger]

Not the bear family, the weasels.

 

[Renard]

Radger is actually a Badger called Roger

(sorry wrong thread)

 

[vernon]

Not the bear family, the weasels.

I saw four stoats run out into the road ahead of me yesterday then do a quick u-turn and disappear into the verge.

Any idea what the collective noun is for stoats?

 

[Dave5N]

A Shame of Stoats