Road-kill Nutria. Unpleasant photo #2. This road had a concentration of roadkill: one each of raccoon, striped skunk, nutria, river otter, and red-breasted sapsucker in just under one mile. Water-filled ditches on each site of the road for part of the way, and road crosses a stream at a shallow angle.
Road-kill. This road had a concentration of roadkill: one each of raccoon, striped skunk, nutria, river otter, and red-breasted sapsucker in just under one mile. Water-filled ditches on each site of the road for part of the way, and road crosses a stream at a shallow angle.
A partial carcass of a wombat had been pulled onto the road. There was one white dot which would have marked the roadkill of one wombat.
However there was a second carcass just next to the first which clearly had not been marked...there was no white dot for a second wombat. Both carcasses had a spine, showing that it was definitely two carcasses.
The partially exposed skull on one of the carcasses looked smaller than would be expected for a wombat of the size of the two carcasses, which raised the possibility that a third, juvenile wombat was also part of the assembly of carcasses.