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Roadkill
Animals that have died due to vehicular incursions / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Roadkill (disambiguation).
"Traffic victims" redirects here. For human casualties, see Epidemiology of motor vehicle collisions.
Roadkill is a wild animal that have been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated.[1][2][3]
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