| Re: Would you risk your life for wildlife?
I would probably take a calculated risk. The question brought to mind some horrible footage I saw last year on TV. CCTV cameras had caught a group of three youths kicking a seagull to death. It was absolutely sickening. I know that had I been there I would certainly have tried to intervene.
I don't drive, but my partner of over 35 years does. In all the time I have known him, he has actively avoided hitting any animals that run out in front of the car - even as a young driver he would stop rather than run over a mouse. His attitute is that ok, this time it was only a mouse/rabbit/fox whatever, the next time it could be a child. In all that time the only accident he's ever had was when a van went into the back of our car when we were stopped at traffic lights!
Sadly, we've had two bird fatalities recently. One was a chaffinch that flew out a hedgerow straight into the side of the moving car. The other was a suicidal pheasant than ran from cover straight under the front wheel as we were turning onto a roundabout. Animals in front of the car can be avoided, but there's nothing you can do when the creature actively runs into the side of you.
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