tomatoely@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days agoTIL before 1972 sperm whales were killed in order to make transmission fluids for car transmissionsmagazine.washington.eduexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1256arrow-down1external-linkTIL before 1972 sperm whales were killed in order to make transmission fluids for car transmissionsmagazine.washington.edutomatoely@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepedz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·4 days agoThey’re still killing a few billion other animals yearly, just not whales. Very large numbers of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates are killed on the world’s roads every day. A Humane Society volunteer survey conducted over three Memorial Day weekends in the 1960s estimated that one million vertebrate animals are killed by vehicular traffic daily in the United States. A 2008 Federal Highway Administration report estimates that 1 to 2 million accidents occur each year between large animals and vehicles. Extrapolating globally based on total length of roads, roughly 5.5 million vertebrates are killed per day, or over 2 billion annually.
They’re still killing a few billion other animals yearly, just not whales.