Welcome to Natural Wonders, a place where I wonder about my wanderings and pick up curious facts about the birds and the bees. If you were forwarded this email or stumbled here by accident, feel free to subscribe below: As a road cyclist, I come across a lot of roadkill when I’m out and about. It’s a sad byproduct of the encroachment of humans into animal territory, the carcasses of random skunks/opossums/deer that have tried and failed to cross the Highway of Death.