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.
thats true, they can smell great. I mean they are prey animals
bears can smell great too tho, wtf do i know
I suppose it is more of environmental awareness, and people do stink
Not yet, whenever one dies got to cut the head off and send it to lab. So far so good.
yeah, i cant find a decent map... but i thought it was way worse. Only seems to be a dozen or so counties
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.
I mean they can differentiate from like a tractor or a skidsteer or a ranger. Tractor is normal, others are dif.
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