I have heard the same story and think that it is possible that some road kills are in fact badger baiters, or others covering their tracks. It would be interesting for someone with access to the necessary facilities to carry out a study of road kills to determine if the theory is likely to be true or false. There should be some sort of cordination throughout the various badger groups across the country who might know how to obtain finance for such a project. The Hastings Badger Group got a lot of bad press due to harassing some members of a housing estate. This caused one of the committee to try to disolve it and write to the charities commission. He was in a terrible anxious state and the behaviour within the society meant that I did not renew my subscription. I think Hastings might be lacking a decent badger group. I never record dead badgers, or live badgers, or set locations due to fear that the Government will get hold of the data, have a change of policy and decide in conjunction with MAFF to eradicate badgers. I do not support badger culls, think it is short sighted and not benefical. All the best, Richard.
Robin Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Road kills do not necessarily show any external signs of injury. It would be necessary to do a post mortem examination to look for subcutaneous bruising (or gun shot wounds). Not sure how evidence of gassing would show up; probably it would depend on the gas used. Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: "dom Green" To: Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 4:40 PM Subject: [Adastra] Badger road-kill mystery...? >I had a very odd conversation this week, during which an acquaintance of > mine claimed that she had heard that most of the dead badgers seen by the > side of the road are not road-kill at all: she was adamant that they are > in > fact shot or gassed by nasty farmers who then dump the bodies on verges in > order to cover their tracks. She cited the fact that most such badgers' > bodies don't appear to have any injuries, as they would do had they been > hit > by a car. > Sounds like just another weird urban (rural?) myth to me, so I was > wondering > whether anybody else had heard anything similar? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. > https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Adastra mailing list > Adastra@lists.sxbrc.org.uk > http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra > http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra-archives > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.5/769 - Release Date: 4/19/2007 > 5:56 PM > _______________________________________________ Adastra mailing list Adastra@lists.sxbrc.org.uk http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra-archives _______________________________________________ Adastra mailing list Adastra@lists.sxbrc.org.uk http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra http://lists.sxbrc.org.uk/adastra-archives
