There are fatalities on all sides when animals share a habitat with human beings. Animals who are migrating, tracking a mate, or looking for food and water have to cross roads, unaware of the speeding metal danger that is the automobile. Each crossing is a danger to them, and they may or may not get to the other side.

Once they are hit, they can cause serious damage to a car or the people in it. If they’re small enough, though, carcasses may appear to drivers as simply furry lumps on the roadside. But that’s not the end of the story. (Read: Four Creepy, Cool Ways Roadkill Helps Science)

There are a variety of different fates that roadkill can meet.

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