Playing chicken with traffic

Went on my lunch hour ride today although it's more like a 40 minute ride during my lunch hour. Nonetheless... Rode through the campus of the University here in Hackensack...Fairleigh Dickinson University I think it is...then made my way over the ped bridge to River Road. U-turned and then made my way back up Riverside Road. Light at the intersection was yellow, I was just about to turn and noticed a Ford Explorer gunning to make the light and turn right. Made eye contact with the driver and made him slow down so I could turn. Then he gunned the gas and squealed the tires as he ran the red. Impatient bastard! The rest of the ride was uneventful. Saw a lot of dead squirrels and squished birds though. Kinda weird. Almost ran over a squirrel too! I don't understand why these animals continue to play chicken with the cars. Don't they see there stiff, dead buddy lying there face up by the curb? And what about the birds? They swoop across the road at windshield level just as you're about to pass a certain spot, narrowly escaping death! Crazy animals... I guess they're playing chicken and double-daring each other to get to the other side. Weird.