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    • CommentAuthorwwbwb9636
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
     

    "• In an average year, state, county and local highway departments in the U.S. will remove the following from the nation's roads: 114,324 deer carcasses, the remains of 87,666 raccoons, 56,128 dead squirrels, 12,827 deceased rabbits and 3 kangaroos/wallabies. Statistics for skunks and oppossums are incomplete."

    My only question is where are all these kangaroos/wallabies getting hit in the US? Just kinda curious cause I don't want to hit a kangaroo in the US. Think I'd feak out. :shocked:

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
     

    Interestingly, there's no one area where they are being hit. Most have been in the southern U.S. but not all. Sometimes the authorities know where the animal came from -- escaped from a game farm or petting zoo and the like -- sometimes it's a total mystery.

    • CommentAuthorwwbwb9636
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
     

    Whew! Just wanted to be sure it didn't hit any stray kangaroos in the Colorado mountains. You gotta be careful around them trees and cliffs and all you know.:wink:

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
     

    Kangaroos and wallabies are very intolerant of high altitudes, so you should be safe.

    They are so intolerant, in fact, that at the Denver Zoo they sleep in a hyperbaric chamber. Before the zookeepers tried this therapy on the animals they seemed to suffer from severe lethargy and a general lack of hoppiness.

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      CommentAuthorcmseagle
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
     

    hoppiness... That's punny

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      CommentAuthorPiggie8
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2007
     

    Thanks for the question! I was wondering myself! :)

    • CommentAuthorwwbwb9636
    • CommentTimeDec 6th 2007
     

    omg... it's true. The prophecies are coming true.... it's time to run for the hills. :shocked::bigsmile:

    Lewisville police capture kangaroo chase on video
    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/5349050.html

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