Posted on 02/21/2022 10:23:17 AM PST by LiberalismDestroys
Not difficult in a state that elected Mitt Romney a second time.
In Utah the Elk know to stay away from Wal-Mart when it’s running a special on prepper food supplies. LOL
I read something similar about white tail in a certain area. They knew when hunting season started and they knew where to go to hide until it was all over.
Deer and crows — Felix Salten, who wrote the original novel Bambi (which Disney studios really ruined) was a deer hunter himself. In the novel, the crows warn the deer about hunters in the woods.
I have never applied for a hunting permit in my life. But a good ol boy Bobby gave me a revolver to sit in one of his deer stands and shoot what deer came by. Clark County Georgia. 1988.
Then very soon His son killed a large buck. My guess is 220 lbs. It was so tough to drag this deer’s body to the asphalt road. I got deer ribs and sausages from me efforts. The ribs were the best,
It’s only half joking. Crows are extremely smart and have long memories.
Years ago...I-80, driving east...came around a bend and a car was stopped ON THE INTERSTATE, all four doors open and 4 guys shooting guns at some deer that were easily 1/2 mile away. Not only did I have to dodge their car but I was afraid I’d take a bullet while swerving around them....
Guess they were aiming high in hopes the bullet would make the half-mile trip because there were no bullet holes in my truck afterward.
The elk know that on that side of the line is the tribal land of the Ute Nation. The minute the hunt starts, they move over the line.
When you see white-tailed deer doing the equivalent of worming down a large drainage ditch to avoid being back lighted by early morning sunlight, literally crawling on their bellies in a deer like fashion. You know at that point that they are evolving defenses for suvivability.
The power plant north of Panama City Florida is situated on a large tract with woods . As hunting season begins the deer congregate on the plant property where there is no hunting permitted. When I worked security there, part of my job was to patrol the grounds. I could tell when the season started because I would see many deer for the duration. The week the season ended the deer I saw dropped from crowds to perhaps one or two.
“One of the herds in north Idaho used to camp below our bedroom window. Would show up after the season ended and spend much of the winter there. Paid us very little attention.”
I think it’s called Associative memory, in other words the elk Associated that spot with a place that they could go and not be stressed, and they know that you live there and that you are not a threat.
Dogs have a very similar type of memory and that’s why some dogs will recognize people they haven’t seen in years because their sensory and memory equate that smell of you with a memory of something that is non threatening and pleasurable.
Likewise a dog doesn’t necessarily follow some commands... what the associative memory is, is that when you stand up and put on your shoes that association indicates to the canine that you might be going for a walk because it is a pleasurable associative memory. The Dog is really excited, circles around you, barks pleasurably in great anticipation of the walk.
That and he house was a good wind break on the hillside ;) Actually the entire 10 acres was pretty protected and open which the elk really liked.
A couple or three decades ago, Louisiana declared a moratorium of gator hunting because their numbers were endangered. Three or four years later they lifted the embargo because their numbers had rebounded. Except the increase was well in excess of the American alligator’s notoriously slow reproductive abilities, the obvious implication being they just for a time were doing a better job of hiding from the gator census takers.
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