Really... How come you see more dead animals than living ones on Phillip Island? Walking along the roads, drawing black lines between yellowish fields, you encounter hundred of road kills: skeletons, decaying corpses, dried up torn apart bodies...
Patches of fur or little mounds of bones.
Somehow, if the deaths of these animals are not "natural" (as being hit by a metal machine going too fast for you, or being blinded and trapped by its lights at night), their decay is: some bodies have been here a while, and the bones are white-clean. Maybe it's part of the process to let them rot where they stand. I have no idea... Yet, it is sad to see those various creatures, from birds and furry animals, to snakes, lizards and insects all united in a clean pancake relationship to the roads.
Interestingly, many skeletons seem to have lost their heads.
Yep, a lot of skulls missing.
Then, in the Koala preservation center, they had a little box displaying "findings of the bush" or something like that. Funnily, these "findings", supposedly picked up in a wild and untamed bush really looked like the road kills: skulls, snake skins and so on.
But I guess you have to have walked on the roads to know there are these squashed-animal-relics... And from what I've seen, tourists avoid walking...
So? Conclusions?
Walking the back alleys always bring up some interesting skeletons in the closets... if that makes any sense.
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