Posted on 04/09/2022 7:52:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Bambi ping
>> i believe they were all later arrested for jaywalking <<
Why does a deer cross a road just in front of a car, anyway?
The whistles work on my sister’s car. Her car was a deer magnet.
I’ve had a deer run into the side of my car while I was stopped at a red light at night.
Red deer are the smaller European variety of our elk.
coula been fake- but she coulda been blond too
had one run into side of truck while driving along- have had many jump out in front of the vehicle and just stand there- others get into road- they look like they are gonna go to other side but nope- last second they turn and go back the way they came- Country driving is defensive driving some times- -
Things that irritate my spouse....when I ask him if he “caught” anything when he goes hunting, and referring to deer antlers as horns.....
I hope that Buck makes it. He took the worst of it
Animals follow magnetic “lines of force”/magnetic fields that have existed for millennia, long before cars or roads happened.
You could call them ancestral crossings, sort of.
Smart road crews know where these are and put up deer crossing signs on them.
I know ALL the ancestral crossings for every species in a 10 mile range, here, and manage to watch out for, see and therefore not hit things, ever.
The animals do not understand cars and cross because they are magnetically programmed to do so.
Currently, the Amazon juggernaut is ripping many places that herds of deer lived and crossed habitually, and now they’re befuddled by the loss of their crossing places, not to mention their homes and habitats.
Deer who used to cross in the wooded suburban copses are now getting run over in the middle of town because they’re trying to find someplace else to go live...unsuccessfully.
It’s heartbreaking.
I’m coming to despise Amazon.
We have two HUGE complexes built last year, in addition to the 4 or 5 others within 20 minute drives and now they’re destroying a beautiful historically significant farm for yet another.
If I live long enough, I’m probably going to be surrounded by nothing but Amazon complexes.
Yours are white tail
Apparently Eurasian Red Deer. duckduckgo it.
This is an old book, but it’s fascinating. He discusses flyways and migration patterns as ingrained in - or ‘traditonal’ - in bird populations:
https://www.amazon.com/Travels-Traditions-Waterfowl-Albert-Hochbaum/dp/0816604487
Since that article I have though about having blue jean front end cover made for my car.
many many years ago in high school we were on our way to a cross country meet on a Saturday morning on a school bus and a huge white tail buck jumped right in front of us as we were coming down a hill into a gully with a little bridge.
Hit the deer full on. Deer got up stumbled to side of the road and collapsed. Broke the front axle of the bus - we missed the meet, but got a cool story out of it.
Can’t remember if who’s dad asked the cops for a tag, but I know the coach and driver said have at it. We all got jerky later in the season :)
Well, I’ll let a ‘blond’ respond to that.
lol not all blonds, but ya gotta admit- some are truly out there- we have a cousin who is the epitome of all the blond jokes- great gal, but wow- sometimes ya just look at them i n disbelief- thinking ‘nope- they can’t be that clueless-’- but then again- i guess all hair colored folks can be out to lunch sometimes- just seems though blonds have a little higher %
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