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Date:         Mon, 9 Sep 2013 13:04:13 -0500
Reply-To:     ralph meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         ralph meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Deer whistles--do they work?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <522E0B7C.9020202@gmail.com>
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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 >> >>


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