Had a close encounter with Angus before, came over a hump&curve in the road
at night out in the sticks at 60 mph, hit the brakes to barely nudge it!
Would have been ugly if I hadn't been paying attention!!
Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy
On Sep 9, 2013 12:55 PM, "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Birds "get" cars: they see a car coming, they get out of the way.
> They're pretty good at that, too: sometimes they'll wait until the last
> minute to move, a final peck at that nice piece of road kill.
>
> Deer don't seem to be able to determine the likely course of a vehicle
> -- they are unable to get out of the way because they don't know where
> "the way" is.
>
> Cows seem to be as clueless. At least the ones here that I've had to
> wade through.
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 09/09/2013 10:31 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
>> Well, what the paper says is that deer can hear the low frequency ones
>> (probably), but not the high frequency ones.  It also says that road noise
>> may mask the whistle.  It does not say that they do or don't work.  My
>> guess is that they don't stop deer from entering the road, even if deer do
>> hear them.  After all, they almost certainly hear and see the vehicle.
>>  When I hit a deer, the things were running around in a blind panic.  I had
>> slowed to almost a crawl (annoying other drivers whom I guess just wanted
>> to hit the deer anyway, they had to see them), and the deer had disappeared
>> back into the woods.  I sped up, the deer came back and ran in front of me
>> before I could stop.
>>
>> mcneely
>>
>> ---- Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, no they don�t then!   I conclude from this paper that constantly
>>> honking your horn is the only effective method to alert deer.  Not such a
>>> good idea in populated areas.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I watched this recent PBS program on deer overpopulation in NY, it�s a
>>> big problem:  http://video.pbs.org/video/**2365000001/<http://video.pbs.org/video/2365000001/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Alistair Bell [mailto:albell@shaw.ca]
>>> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:36 AM
>>> To: Stuart MacMillan
>>> Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Re: Deer whistles--do they work?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.bioacoustics.uconn.**edu/reports/ARLOManuscript326%**
>>> 20FINAL.pdf<http://www.bioacoustics.uconn.edu/reports/ARLOManuscript326%20FINAL.pdf>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Alistair
>>>
>>
>> --
>> David McNeely
>>
>>