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nestork · 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug Miller[_4_]

nestork wrote in :

'Doug Miller[_4_ Wrote:
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At under twenty feet, I kind of doubt that.

You're telling me that you walked up to within 20 feet of a wild deer
and they didn't respond to your presence? That they behaved as if you
weren't there. And it's because you were wearing bright orange
coveralls and deer can't see that colour?

No, I'm telling you that I was standing still, and the deer walked up to within 20 feet of me.

Do I understand you correctly?

At 20 feet, not only could the deer see you, it would have heard and
smelled you as well.

It certainly did smell me! It was vigorously sniffing the air, quite loudly. Since I was standing
motionless, the only thing it might have been able to hear was my breathing.

I'm not sure what it was able to see, but it certainly didn't see anything that alarmed it -- until I
moved. *Then* it took off.

The only way I could see a deer not responding is
if it was a domesticated deer from a zoo that got loose.

You evidently don't have a lot of experience with wild deer. They don't appear to fear things
that don't move.

I don't hunt, but I do have a bit of experience with deer.

In the town I grew up in, which was about 25 miles north of Winnipeg and had a population of 4400, or thereabouts, deer would often wander into town.

Admittedly those deer were lost and probably scared, but there's no way you could ever get close to one. As soon as you started to approach it, it would be off, and those things can run like the wind. Those times where I saw the RCMP (local police) try to deal with a deer that found it's way into someone's vegetable garden, the deer wouldn't let them get near. The police would just scare it, allowing a clear path for it to get out of the yard, and the deer would run out of the yard and out of town, and that was good enough. My experience with deer is that you can't get anywhere near 20 feet away from a deer (which is what I thought you meant) before it would run away.