• Veedem@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Being that many deer impacts happen at night, I believe I read a long while ago, that their delay in response is because the headlights temporarily blind them since they’re in the dark and suddenly are looking right into light. That period of freezing is them waiting for their eyes to adjust so they can decide on the action to take.

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    2 years ago

    “There was a time where they cared nothing for General Motors when their only experience of humanity was a Volkswagen golf 1974 coming at them down a steel corridor.” -Gman

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    3 months ago

    As a hunter, I can explain this.

    Deer cannot see color and actually have incredibly shit eyesight in comparison to something like a turkey or a coyote. They rely mostly on scent and hearing to decide what to do.

    They freeze because the light completely blinds them, the car has no natural smell, and all they hear is the same roaring they’ve been hearing the past hour getting slightly louder.

    Like a frog in a boiling pot situation, it’s fine until it’s suddenly not and then they can’t see-