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unbelievable luck for a duck crossing on a highway
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:47 pm
by applePi
in toronto canada, they should build a tunnel special only to those ducks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe0ojjoB-RQ
Re: unbelievable luck for a duck crossing on a highway
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:39 pm
by c4s
Well, the cars try to avoid them anyway. So not
that much luck...
Re: unbelievable luck for a duck crossing on a highway
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:54 pm
by utopiomania
Heh
Cool, glad they made it!
Re: unbelievable luck for a duck crossing on a highway
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:42 pm
by Zach
They could build all the tunnels they want, but somehow I don't see these retarded animals using them...
Re: unbelievable luck for a duck crossing on a highway
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:09 pm
by MachineCode
Actually, tunnels (and overhead ropes) work extremely well in Australia for possums and other animals on highways:
http://www.hinterlandtimes.com.au/2010/ ... -the-road/
and
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/r ... 5815524950
Animals aren't as retarded as you'd think.
Re: unbelievable luck for a duck crossing on a highway
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:53 pm
by applePi
yes the tunnels are used by ducks and other animals. look the paper "New study uncovers how animals in Maryland use underground highway culverts"
http://www.umces.edu/al/project/new-stu ... y-culverts
and for more pictures
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 641&type=3
Re: unbelievable luck for a duck crossing on a highway
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:59 pm
by Zach
and humans (we were spotted using the tunnels, too) were most frequently found in areas with maintained lawns. And much like us, an unobstructed view is an important factor in an animal’s use of the tunnel.
Ah.... childhood flashback LOL.
I grew up in Prince George's County, Maryland.
We had some really huge fucking tunnels, like this one section near an automatic car wash facility, was a junction for several smaller (but still big) diameter pipes which met and then emptied into a huge tunnel you could probably drive a truck (pickup) through, and that ran under the 2 sets of Marc / Amtrak rails that ran behind the area. Was a popular hangout / way station for young kids and teens moving through the area.
We tried to ditch the cops using them one time, but they heard us running through them and were waiting on the opposite side (we had just come from) when we popped up on the other side of the tracks.