I really dont believe all that. I work with deer daily and if a cat walks by far away they are all staring at it. And my dog watches birds in the sky and cows way far away. I believe what I see everyday. And believe me, deer dont have poor sight.
I've snuck up on plenty of deer by being down wind and moving really slow. They'll take notice of you hit a leaf (hearing is amazing) and look in the general direction but if you freeze you'll see them struggle to to see you, bobbing their heads back and forth. After a few minutes they'll go back to grazing and you can move again. If they're really suspicious you'll stamp and snort to try and get you to move before going back to there business. I've gotten withing 10 feet of families of deer on multiple occasions.
Don't take my word though next time you run into some deer try yourself and see.
it is their hearing you have to watch for. They can hear a friggin pin drop... and pooof they off
or they get use to "human" traffic.... like they know the trail in the woods people are walking on it. you take one step off, they are off running for their life
i so hate deer, you can get them to trust people tho. There is a deer park a few hours away where you can hand feed them and pet them.
Hey you said you worked with deer. you ever have a problem with CWD? minnesota is getting fucked over hard by it (like every fucking year)
some counties have salt lick bans and such. you cant bait (hunting) here but you can attract them to an area. Which is what DNR are trying to avoid so it doesnt spread
When we caught and tagged them it was scent which usually gave us away, their smell is amazing.
Also from the time the net would release to catching them (10' fall) they would be 20' away.
Not yet, whenever one dies got to cut the head off and send it to lab. So far so good.
I work with deer everyday dude, Granted they are in pens, but like I said, they see shit far away and will all be looking at it. That leads me to believe they have good eyesight. Regardless. They also recognize different equipment.
What kind of equipment?
They can see moving objects and are great at picking up on sublet sounds from far away which would cause them to point to that direction.
deer are just fucking stupid and not made to hunt, instincts are different
I know, they are stupider than cows, but we are talking about what they see.
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https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/big-buck-zone/2014/07/video-new-study-sheds-light-what-deer-see/#targetText=Scientists believe that deer can,eye on a horizontal plane.
its probably why trail cams dont spook them
Deer eyes only have two photopigment types, giving them dichromatic color vision. Scientists believe that deer can primarily see short-wavelength blue light, and moderate-wavelength light that they probably perceive as something between red and green.
Unlike in humans, the cones in a deer's eye are distributed across the back of the eye on a horizontal plane. The lens in a deer's eye also can't adjust to objects at varying distances. These factors give deer less visual clarity than humans have. An object a deer is looking at straight on is equally in focus as something out to the side. So don't assume that because a deer isn't looking at you that it can't see you.
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