Fast as a Deer

[Ron Hardin]

So I was riding along and noticed a deer ahead of me running
away. He was forced to run road-wise by a long pasture fence
and I was gaining on him. At the end of the fence, he turned
left and disappeared into the woods.

He was a fawn but no Bambi, pretty well grown.

Later, returning on the same road, about a mile away, I came
upon another such deer at another pasture, and the same
thing happened, I was gaining on him. This time I slowed and
consulted the GPS: he was doing
18.1 mph.

Unlike squirrels (``fast as a squirrel'') deer apparently do
not attempt to escape by turning back at you, though I left
open enough room to allow for the possibility. These just
kept straight until an opportunity to turn away came up.
--
Ron Hardin [email protected]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

 

[Andrew Price]

Ron Hardin wrote
> So I was riding along and noticed a deer ahead of me
> running away. He was forced to run road-wise by a long
> pasture fence

Had a similar experience with 2 kangaroos bounding alongside
a touring bunch of cyclists on a country tour.

The 'roos seemed to enjoy pacing along side of us, till they
came to a cross fence when they did what they do best and
just bounded over it

Eventually; they came to a very high fenced with a high
hedge, which have us the win by a wheel over a paw

But on uninterrupted terrain, I'll bet they could have
dropped us.

best, Andrew

"But riding is my special gift, my chiefest, sole delight;
Just ask a wild duck can it swim, a wildcat can it fight...
I'll ride this here two-wheeled concern, right straight
away, at sight." A B 'Banjo' Patterson - "Mulga Bill" 25
July 1896.

 

[Rick Onanian]

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:22:31 GMT, Ron Hardin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>another such deer at another pasture, and the same thing
>happened, I was gaining on him. This time I slowed and
>consulted the GPS: he was doing
>18.1 mph.

Saw two baby deer in the road today. They ran off into the
woods as soon as I saw them.

>Unlike squirrels (``fast as a squirrel'') deer
>apparently do not

Clocked a squirrel at ~18 mph today, too. I was doing 20 and
slowly gaining on him.

>attempt to escape by turning back at you, though I left
>open enough room to allow for the possibility. These just
>kept straight until an opportunity to turn away came up.

Deer don't follow a pattern, or think, or have an instinct
for which direction to run, AFAIK; their ONLY
instinct/thought/action is to RUN regardless of where, which
is why they run blindly into the road.
--
Rick Onanian