Animal death

thumb|A wedge-tailed eagle and carrion ([[roadkill kangaroo) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.]] thumb|Zoarcidae|Zoarcid fish feeding on the carrion of a mobulid ray.

thumb|right|250px|Primate and pachyderm taxidermy at the [[Rahmat International Wildlife Museum & Gallery, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia]]

violent conflict between two groups of chimpanzees in Tanzania during the 1970s

phenomenon in which a whale becomes stuck on a beach, often causing the whale's death

temporary ecosystem resulting from the fall of a whale carcass to the ocean floor

thumb|The battered remains of a roadkilled White-tailed deer|deer on [[South Carolina Highway 170 by the Chechessee River in South Carolina, US]] thumb|Wide-ranging large carnivores like this [[bear are particularly vulnerable to becoming roadkill.]] Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) have increasingly been the topic of academic research to understand the causes, and how they can be mitigated.

road bridge in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK, carries an estate driveway across Overtoun Burn

violent conflict between the Western and Central factions of Ngogo chimpanzees

theme of several works of poetry

incident that kills a vast number of a single species in a short period of time

grief over the loss of an animal