Posted on 11/03/2022 4:26:29 PM PDT by devane617
Drivers, beware. Your chances of hitting a deer are at their highest now through next week.
For a week after clocks change this Sunday, motorists are 16% more likely to run into a deer, according to a recent report that examined a dataset of more than one million instances of vehicles colliding with deer across 23 states in the United States.
A team of researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle, led by Calum X. Cunningham, published their findings Wednesday with Current Biology, detailing how deer-vehicle collisions spike in late October through early November.
According to the researchers, deer strikes spike in late October and early November in all the states studied — except for Alaska. “Almost 10% [of these collisions] occurred during the two-week period centered on the autumn time change, which is 2.5 times greater than expected if collisions were universally distributed,” they stated.
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it is a higher percentage for hungry drivers
hint:
they move at dawn and dusk
Yes, we change clocks around the time the bucks go into the rut where they chase does for sex recklessly and across traffic with no regard to danger.
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Most deer that I know don’t pay much attention to the time of day.
And I suppose it has nothing to do with hunting season and mating season, both of which cause deer to be on the move…..
Yeah, that’s probably it.
Time change.
Yeah.
I’m going to spend a lot of time figuring out how to talk to deer. I will given them advice on how to avoid getting hit, and thus hopefully will also prevent human injury. I speak squirrel and chipmunk, but am still trying to master deer.
Corn and soy bean harvests run combines straight thru the night and day. They tend to flush out the deer in a chaos. The deer just run from the sound into traffic. It’s also rut reason.
“ but am still trying to master deer.”
If you get them in your headlights, it is very similar to talking sense to democrats
Exactly
It’s the start of the rut.
all true
Arizona and Upper Peninsula don’t have time change. Guess the deer must not know it.
Don’t like the extra hour of sunlight. Burns my grass.
Again, as a consequence of rutting season.
They need to move the deer crossing signs to safer locations.
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