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4-panel comic by War and Peas.

Panel 1: A waiter carries a martini on a tray toward a green car seated at a bar table and clears his throat, “Ahem…”

Panel 2: He offers the drink, “This is from the gentleman at the bar.”

Panel 3: A hypnotised-looking deer sits at the bar nursing a glass of wine.

Panel 4: The car’s headlight-eyes droop wearily as it groans, “Not again.”

  • arrow74@lemmy.zip
    7·
    23 days ago

    Has anyone noticed that they’ve been having far less close calls with deer while driving?

    My theory is they’ve begun to evolve to not jump in front of cars. Which makes sense since getting obliterated by a car is certainly a selective pressure

    • groet@feddit.org
      82·
      23 days ago

      Every year the forests get smaller and more fragmented. More land gets turned into lawns, and fields or covered with concrete. The air and the ground water gets poisoned. The native plants replaced by invasives.

      Most likely, there are just fewer deer.

      • naticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        Same, I have a small area on the edge of town with a road that only locals use which cuts through a lot of trees. All the older deer will wait and are rarely a hazard. All the fawns though? Gotta be extra careful of them.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 days ago

      I lived in SE Idaho and the amount of roadkill was staggering. Without fail everyday on the way to work I would see new deer carcasses and other assorted roadkill.

      I live in Alaska now and I had a deer standing on the side of the highway suddenly decide to cross right before I reached it. I slammed on the breaks and hit if going about 15 miles an hour. It went directly underneath my rig without my tires hitting it and got back up and ran off. Too close of a call and I hope it was not seriously injured.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
        2·
        22 days ago

        Interesting, coming from rural Georgia we used to have to dodge deer all through the fall in my childhood. Slamming on brakes was a common occurrence. But when I got older it became rare. I traveled much of the state for work and during “peak” seasons with much less issues.

        Georgia does have a much higher population density than Idaho and Alaska. Meaning deer would be under more pressure to adapt to avoiding cars