Originally posted by: OhSnap688
So like the white tailed deer are like suicide bombers?
Pretty damned effectively, too. Their instincts tell them to stand perfectly still in the event of approaching danger, but if it gets too close, they make a snap decision to run, which too often is right in front of the noisy bright light things rapidly approaching.
My mom's car took pretty bad damage from a deer hit, right in the front. The deer did not survive.
My dad does more driving, and has had more encounters:
- 1 car totaled from a deer hit in the front. Dead deer
- 1 door replaced when a deer barreled down a hill, right into the side of the moving car. Dead or alive, don't know.
- Minor damage to the front of another car from a deer that he almost managed to avoid hitting. It cracked the bumper and left some fur behind. Dead or alive, don't know.
I have yet to hit one, as I can usually see their silhouettes by the roadside, and if one ever crosses the road ahead,
always slow down, because they like to travel in groups, and if one decides to cross in front of the noisy bright lights, more will likely stumble across.
Another one I almost ran into because it started to run across, stumbled, and fell flat on its face right in front of me.
I guess I can just be glad there aren't moose around here.
Originally posted by: zinfamous
I believe they have the most poisonous animals. I would also say deadliest, but I guess to be deadliest, you have to cause more deaths? Not that I'd want to face a hippo, but I'd rather see one of those eyeing me than a salt-water croc.
If you can hold the croc's mouth shut somehow,
maybe you'd have a chance, or perhaps if you jab it in the eyes. Or if you just kindly feed it one of your hands, it might bite that off and leave you alone.
A hippo probably wouldn't stop until you were part of the mush at the bottom of a riverbed.
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