Road traffic is the salamanders’ greatest immediate threat during mating migration

Evidence

Tonight the salamanders’ biggest threat is the cars that go speeding by, their occupants unaware of the spectacle that is taking place beneath their tires. From inside the car, listening to late-night radio, you just don’t know. But standing on the roadside, you can hear the pop of the body, hear the moment when a glistening being following magnetic trails toward love is reduced to red pulp on the pavement. We try to work faster, but there are so many, and we are so few. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1299

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Salamanders can be killed by a passing vehicle’s pressure wave without direct contact — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1308

Broader Connections

• Salamanders can be killed by a passing vehicle’s pressure wave without direct contact #expands (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1308