Snowdrops & skylarks Another dead badger
Yes, I found another dead Badger at the roadside on my 50k loop yesterday.
I'd say I see a dead badger on >50% of my rides.
I've never seen a live badger.
It got me thinking ( the way these things do when you are cycling alone ).
I was thinking about the statistics: the relationship between the number of dead species spotted by the roadside versus the live spotted number of that species, and how that relates to the population of the species.
It's probably quite a complex relationship; variables will include nocturnal / not nocturnal, shyness, etc etc.
But anecdotally, I see *some* dead rabbits / hodgehegs / muselids / sqrls.
But I also see a fair amount of live ones too.
I'm thinking of a regression line between the dead-count and live-count of these I have seen.
It will vary according to the variables I mentioned.
But Badgers seem to be serious outliers in my dataset.