If a car runs over a snail, will the car be slowed down...or swerve? (Maybe a driver charged with reckless driving could use the snail-in-the-tire defense).

Seriously, with all the roads and highways criss-crossing the land, I've wondered what effects this would have on various animal populations. A major interstate would create a fairly insurmountable barrier to the free-flow of genetic information within species. Would we see forms attributable to a location east or west of I-95?

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

>Subject: snails killed by cars
>
>http://snailstales.blogspot.com/2007/06/16-dead-in-ohio.html


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