Back before human domination of America, animals like cougars, bears, wolves, coyotes, lynxes, bobcats, wolverines, eagles, and hawks preyed upon the hapless creatures here. While that still happens to a limited extent, none of those animals take anywhere close to what the new top predator takes. That honor now goes to the ubiquitous motor vehicles that streak along our highways. It takes a cyclist like me, plodding along at 20 mph to bring this into sharp focus. It's a pretty morbid topic today, but sometimes we have to bring attention to that. Today we rode across north-central Montana, a state where rural daytime speed limits are 70 mph on secondary roads and 80 mph or more on Interstates. The defenses that many animals have developed over the eons no longer work. It doesn't matter if you stink...
if you're fast....
if you can hide underground.....
if you can climb trees...
if you have spines and spikes....
if you wear a mask...
if you're really small....
if you can fly...or anything. It will get you.
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