This is the actual turn-off From Banff, Alberta, Canada to the #1 highway to Calgary.


Great picture isn't it? They had to build the animals (especially the elk) their own crossing because that was where the natural crossing was and after the highway was built there were far too many accidents.


It didn't take the animals long to learn that this was their very own bridge !And then you have some people saying ' Animals are stupid.' Really....?

 

Looks like a "natural funnel" and a great place to hang a deer stand.

 

I see poachers in the trees.

 

That will suck when they start to use the real highway over pass as their bridge.

 

That's awesome!

 

"You know you're in Canada if......."

 

What's going on, eh?

 

Elk are the second largest member of the deer family

You hit one of those, and you'll know it!

 

Fake, photo chopped. Showed it to my room mate at college and he googled it and found out.

None the less pretty funny though.

 

Boooo! You Suck! I enjoyed living in ignorance........

 

I Snopes'd it, and Snopes says the actual animal crossing part of that bridge is in fact a Canadian Pacific railroad track.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/banffelk.asp



Alberta has however built many such crossings for wildlife. Pictures of those crossings can be seen here:

http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/banff/d...routes1b_E.asp






Good find on the photoshop. I find it odd how quite a few of those Elk are looking directly at the camera.