Editing Roadkill (section)

==History==
[[File:Roadkill caracal in Afedena.jpg|thumb|Roadkill [[caracal]] in [[Afedena (exclosure)]], Ethiopia]]
Essentially non-existent before the advent of mechanized transport, roadkill is associated with increasing automobile speed in the early 20th century.  In 1920, naturalist Joseph Grinnell wrote of his observations in the state of California that "this is a relatively new source of fatality; and if one were to estimate the entire mileage of such roads in the state, the mortality must mount into the hundreds and perhaps thousands every 24 hours."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecoreader.berkeley.edu/images/v1323/1200/v1323_s2_p068.png |title=May 5 notes |first=Joseph |last=Grinnell |date=May 5, 1920 |work=Field Notes, v1323, Section 2: Death Valley, Calif. 1920 }} cited in: {{cite journal |last1=Kroll |first1=Gary |title=An Environmental History of Roadkill: Road Ecology and the Making of the Permeable Highway |journal=Environmental History |date=16 January 2015 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=4–28 |doi=10.1093/envhis/emu129 }}</ref>

In Europe and North America, deer are the animal most likely to cause vehicle damage.