Deer a purely reactionary animals, similar to a walking alarm. They respond, if they could proactively plan, they would never be killed by hunters unless spotlighted or at night illegally. Something always sets them off, either to alert or high tailing to the next county.
I've made similar posts before, I think there's something to it. I don't know what it is and I can't explain it but there's a lot out there we don't understand and questions we don't even know to ask.
Do deer ever ignore what they see hear or smell? If you believe in the 6th sense then you would have to believe that there would be times they ignore it.
A deers "sixth sense" is forged from being in the same environment, day after day, while trying to avoid being killed. All five senses working together on a mature buck or doe is something to behold.
Don't know if it is the 6th or 66th sense. But they damn well know when the 9 day rifle season is and disappear 2 days before and reappear the day after.
That probably has to do with the alarm going off the day before it opens. When everybody waited to the last minute to sight in the rifle.
Well that's not the case where I hunt, if anything the woods get a little quieter leading up to the rifle season. but even if that was the case, it wouldn't explain the deer showing up immediately after closing of the season. Last year rifle season closed 11/29 at 4:41pm for me. Hadn't had a picture on camera since the Wed prior to opening morning. And what magically appears less than 12 hours after closing. If not a sixth sense, they have a hell of a calendar.
Deer are wired to survive, pro-create and that is it. In order to procreate they must live, in order to live they must ALWAYS do everything they can to survive. It isn't some 6th sense, it is the fact their other senses are heightened...especially in mature ones. There is always a cause or trigger for their actions. Always, even if it was a false alarm.
I used to think the Wisconsin syndrom you speak of was caused by me purchasing a gun tag in Superior when I crossed the Bong Bridge.
I'm thinking deer do not have a sixth sense.....since I've been able to kill quite a few of them while they had no clue I was around
I don't think it's an actual 6th sense. I do think that they use the 5 that they do have at peak efficiency. In contrast, our senses and how we interpret and respond to their input, have been dulled due to our move to an agricultural based food supply. The comparison makes some animals appear to have more than they actually do.
It must be the off season, we're reading and writing articles whether or not deer are magical creatures. SMH.
