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RE: FUN WITH ROADKILL - AN INTRODUCTION
Seriously? Taking the spikes from a porkupine is your recommendation?
If you want to do something positive in regard of roadkill, then pick it up and throw it into the field or forest, away from the road. Because roadkill attracts scavengers, who then get run over as well. There are actually people who purposely run over animals on the side of the road, believe it or not. If you doubt that, read this post - and my comment to it:
https://steemit.com/science/@herpetologyguy/clemson-turtle-study-reveals-disturbing-human-nature
A lot of people do intentionally hit animals with vehicles, especially some reptiles. The purpose of this series is to show others how to use something that would otherwise be considered waste or garbage. I have long enjoyed some uses of porcupine quills and roadkill can be an easy way to obtain some.
Well, I'm not familiar with the uses of porcupine quills, since porcupines dont live here.
However, I think removing the body from the road is something you should mention, as it may well save the lives of other animals, like eagles, buzzards, foxes and so on. Everybody should have a army shovel and a plastic bag in the trunk for that purpose. It may come handy on other occassions, too.
Oh yeah, much like food scraps thrown from vehicles, road kill can draw a lot of scavengers to roadways. I fully agree that carcasses left to rot on the roadside can be an issue.