Sorry, if my own translations seem to match those of Google...
The proper name of these devices is 'Roadside wildlife warning
reflectors'.
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:05:50 +0100, Frank van Lindert wrote:
>Here in The Netherlands (and I have seen them too in Germany) we have
>'wildspiegels' or wildlife mirrors along the roads in areas where deer
>and other wild animals might cross.
>
>Have a look at this Dutch Wikipedia page,
>http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildspiegel
>and for those not knowledgeable in Dutch here is the English
>translation (automated, hence very poor)
>http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildspiegel&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwildspiegel%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Dwwg
>
>These mirrors are very cheap, and you see them everywhere along the
>roads. They have some effect, but the animals tend to get used to the
>mirrors too, so some of them keep crossing the roads nevertheless.
>
>Frank.
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