How come deers constantly get hit by cars?
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Just today I was wondering the same thing.  I was on my way home from the store and there was a dead deer laying on the side of the road, and not even 1 min, before I had nearly hit a dead possum.  I guess some animals can't get the message to there brain fast enough, the poor dears.
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Actually, deer do not always travel with the wind in their face.  They (esp. whitetails) do use the same trails to and from their feeding and sleeping areas.  This is why scouting is very important for the bowhunter.  You need to determine which trail they will use for the time you are going to be on your stand.  Set up off of the trail with the wind in your face.  This way the deer cannot smell you.  If the wind changes, do not hunt this stand as it will only educate the deer and make them harder to get.  You will not fool a deer's nose.  Even with the scent reducing clothing, you still need to watch the wind.\n\n   Think of it this way:  A deer has three primary means of defense:  smell, sight and sound.  It usually takes alerting two of the three to trigger a "get the heck out of here" response.  If a deer sees you but does not smell or hear you, they will try to figure out what you are.  Same with if they hear you but don't smell or see you.  The exception is the nose.  If they smell you, they are gone!  Keep the wind in your face and set up down wind of the trail and you're 1/3 of the way to eating venison.  Good luck.
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An additional cause of the skidding mentoned in the first answer is "hydroplaning". This is the same phenomenon that holds a water-skier up; it's the inertia of the layer of water that resists rapid displacement under the pressure of the object on top.\nSince you mentioned that it's at night, there are three other physical effects that come into play to reduce the safety margin. First, the view of the road is distorted by water hitting the windshield, which has varying thickness and refracts the incoming light in erratic ways. Second, the wet pavement is often less visible, due to the fact that most of the light you see by comes from your direction (your headlights) and is backscattered less by the water layer than it would be by the dry pavement. Third, vision is further hindered by the water's reflection of the headlights of oncoming traffic.
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Because they are predators. Animals which do not rely so much on their hearing for hunting tend to have ears that are positioned to pick up sound equally well through 360 degrees as an early warning system.
765185
ask him if hes ever seen a fawn or doe get taken down by a pack of wolves or coyotes yes its natural but it still ain't pretty they get eaten alive. ask him if any one in his family has ever hit a deer with a car that can be costly and deadly not just for the deer either tell him you disagree and if he doesn't respect that then hes not a real Friend
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My son and I went fishing one day in a canoe. He was in the front of the canoe and as we came around a bend two deer jumped into the stream right in front of us about 20'. They didn't see us until we were about 10' from them. My son looked like a hood ornament on a car, completely frozen in his seat. The deer went into a panic and tried to scramble up a bank on the opposite side but only succeeded in falling over backwards back into the stream. My son and I both laughed and the deer finally made it up the bank and ran off. All through the rest of the day, no matter where we cast our line, we caught fish. It was a magic day for us.
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Yes, but don't say on stand very long. You need to move around a lot and use the rain to your advantage (masks your odor and sounds). Most likely the only deer you're going to get is the one you walk up on while it's bedding down. I'd recommend you use a shotgun with one slug backed up my as many OOO buckshots as your tube will hold because it'll probably be a running shot unless you're very very sneaky. Look for them in heavy cover (dense pine branches that hang low) probably on the high ground.
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Because they keep falling through the holes\nin the grill.
555348
Some times people kill them for the "sport" and even more for the MONEY!  Yes, like the tusks of elephants for the ivory.  It is really sad but it is true.  Minks get killed for their fur....but that has slowed down but it still is happening.  I think more people are aware of the crualty to all animals espically endangered and many have woken up to the wrong doings.  However, there are still some boneheads that don't quite get it.(But that is true in life)  PITA ia a great program trying to protect animals.
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Yes, they fall off and the next year they will grow back with a velvet covering, then the deer will rub it's horns against small brushes and branches to get the velvet off. When you walk in the forests , you can see some of the brushes that they have used to do this.***
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Doing mosquito control, I end up spending quite a bit of time in ditches along freeways.  I've seen some weird stuff.\n\nI find a lot of hubcaps, but that's not all that surprising.  Once I found a whole set of four hubcaps though, two on each side of the freeway, and all about a quarter-mile apart from each other.  I always wondered how exactly that happened.\n\nThere seems to be a lot of clothing lost on the side of the freeway.  Individual kid's shoes seem to be the most common.  One time I found a pair of very... um... used underwear.  That was gross.\n\nMattresses, old appliances and furniture are also common.  Once there was a sofa and loveseat combo that looked like they were perfectly fine - no visible damage or wear and tear.  It had rained the night before, and the cushions were completely and totally soaked though, so I left them there.  They disappeared before they dried out.\n\nDead critters are pretty common too.  Deer, coyotes, cats and porcupines are the main ones.  Once I found the carcass of a black bear - innards, and skin, but no meat or bones.  Another time I found a whole set of bones of a juvenile black bear (I still have the skull).  There was also a time I found a giant pile of slabs and slabs of animal fat.  Man, that smelled gross.  Not as gross as the dead skunk I found and watched decompose over the course of the month.  The day it literally exploded with maggots was the worst.  \n\nOther unusual dead critter finds have included a Slurpee cup filled with dozens of drowned shrews, a set of deer ribs hung in a tree, and another site with dozens of stripped and headless deer carcasses.  The most disturbing was a fully intact deer fetus.  The mother had been hit by a car and the fetus must have been ripped out and it was thrown a dozen yards from where the mother's body was.\n\nOne of the coolest things was a long-tailed weasel that didn't even realize I was there.  He was hopping and darting all around, about a foot away from me until he finally noticed my boot, came up to take a sniff, looked puzzled, and slowly looked up.  When he realized he was right next to a person he took off like a shot!
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It was difficult to find national statistics on this.\n\nI can say for sure the top 4 nationwide are:\n\nbears\ndogs\ndeer\ncougar/mountainlion/etc.\n\nObviosuly some areas of the country have bears and mountain lions, while others do not. A stag deer can be very dangerous if cornered or frightened. In general, the most available statistics are on deaths from dogs and those happen in every state.
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i think you're referring to deer stands and their use.\n\na deer doesn't perceive "threats" from above.  therefore, they would not look up to see incoming problems.\n\ni've seen them look "up" before.  would appear to be beyond the 15 degree mark stated.
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most women do not like to hunt becuase after a deer is killed then they have gto go through the process of cleaning the deer ( de-gutting the thing)  . another threason is because they were never exposed to hunting as little children.  my sister likes to hunt (she got a miracle shot at an 8 point deer and killed it, all on her first shot on a rifle she has never fired in her life, and on her first real hunting trip, im extremely jealous), but she is an exception.
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Sorry about your hamster hun.... lots of animals get hit by cars and trucks.  My dog was run over by an 18 wheeler, you cry, you're sad, but you know they are in a better place somewhere!
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Ok.. here goes. . ." Does God make the "Bad Deer" jump in front of cars on the highway driven by "Bad People" ? I LMAO.\n\nThen the guy gave me best answer, although I really didn't say much !!!
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Its when each of you are in a vehicle or maybe even a bicycle and drive straight at each other. Who ever gets scared first and turns to avoid hitting the other person is the chicken