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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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We drove along the new bi-pass that avoids Church Village last week and noticed several small bridges along the way. I asked Jez what they were for as they were obviously way to small for pedestrians. I was totally speechless after what he told me and thought he was yanking my chain.
Apparently they are for field mice and, I presume, other small animals to get from one side to the other without becoming roadkill.
I later found out they spent about £150.000 erecting these bridges.
The idea is good I suppose in theory and I hate seeing animals killed on roads but my question is this. How do the animals know to use them???
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"How do the animals know to use them???
Signposts?
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LOL That's what hubby said when I asked that!!!
That said, rodents are very intelligent creatures but I think that maybe stretching a little  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I seem to recall the Monster Raving Loony Party having something in their manifesto about putting pedestrian crossing controls at ground level so hedgehogs could use them...  "
yeah I read that too, doesnt seem so mad now given what they're doing for the wee little field mice.  |
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This is nothing.
Our local authority have just completed a tram car system for voles!
It's like a huge scalelectrix track in our town centre with lot's of angry commuter voles waving their fists at the humans who keeping getting in the way of the trams.
Will man never learn not to meddle with nature!!!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Must admit it would be interesting to find out if they actually learn to use it. Perhaps they will spend more money and put up camera's on the bridges to see if this works! Wouldn't surprise me at all. |
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By *umourCouple
over a year ago
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Whilst building a road, lay a length of pipe under it and conctete over the top... Continue to lay road!
Animal tunnel for a couple of thousand quid! But then, not a headline grabber, eh?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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why not , they do have crossings for Zebras and there a non-native species , bout time we did things for some of our own first !!!!!!!
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"Ironically, they'll be more accessible to birds as a result.
So more may die, only more naturally.
Which is worth £190,000, I'm sure we'd agree..."
Some birds may not be able to fit through. What happens if they get stuck?
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Think the rabbit and stoat need to be used to train the field mice to cross the road.......Living by a busy road, these animals aren’t willing to take any chances when it comes to getting across safely.
Instead, a rabbit and a stoat are cleverly using an underground network of drains to make it to the other side.
The cute animals scuttle from one side of the road to the other and pop out of drains in order to avoid being hit by traffic.
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