Antelope will dive under a fence wire that is a foot off the
ground but not jump over it. Seen it happen more than once.
Antelope taste good.



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| John Gaquin wrote:
| "Peter Duniho" wrote in
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| People get run over by cars all the time.
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| LOL now there are two who have no idea why deer run in
front of cars, yet
| are willing to insist that my posit is dead wrong.
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| I love reading people in an argument!
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| I have no idea whether deer can understand something
moving at aircraft
| speeds. I don't know whether they can comprehend that or
not.
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| But....some critters have a natural response that we might
misread. I
| have observed that antelope will run a straight line (at
speeds up to
| 60 mph, by my car's speedometer) while running "from" a
car. Funny
| thing is, they might run parallel to the path of the
car/road. I have
| observed--and been told--that they won't jump a fence, but
will run a
| heck of a long way. They CAN jump, but usually don't.
Why not?
| Because for, oh, a half a million years or so, their main
defense has
| been speed. Just run. Fast and straight. Not much can
keep up with
| them.
|
| A deer's main defense is freezing. I don't know why they
jump in front
| of the vehicle, but they do.
|
| Don't read human behavior into animals. They aren't
human. They
| reason quite well for their world, but it can be difficult
for them to
| adapt as fast as we do.
|
| cheers.
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