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I live in the city at a place where a creek bed deadends into a four-lane road. Whay happens is that the deer come wandering out of the creek bed, wondering why the creek stopped, and just dash about trying to figure out whether it is safe to stop for lunch or if they need to keep moving (we've also seen some foxes and a couple of roadrunners with the same puzzled expression on their faces).

The deer aren't exactly happy to see humans but they aren't so panic-stricken as to interrupt their feeding either. We walkers and joggers don't shoot them so the memo hasn't gotten around for them to be afraid of us. Why, some of the girls even try to feed them.

I suspect that, in time, the deer won't fear us at all which will be a big mistake.

I'm curious, too, why we can't turn this potential food source into something that will improve our economy. Why not "deer for oil"?