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- From: hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts)
- Subject: Re: deer whistles
- Message-ID: <hank.727595518@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <93019.141656DCW1@psuvm.psu.edu> <1993Jan19.202605.7272@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:51:58 GMT
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- I started using deer whistles after an old friend who's a motorcyclist
- recommended them. His observation is that, without whistles, deer would
- feed calmly as he approached them, then startle about the time the
- headlights reached them and run one way or another. After he and his
- riding friends installed deer whistles (following a fatality when
- a motorcyclist and a deer collided at speed on the highway and the
- motorcyclist died) -- they noticed a very different response from the
- deer -- the deer would visibly prick up their ears, raise their heads
- and look toward the oncoming whistle, at a considerable distance, and
- then amble rather slowly out of the bike's path.
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- The ones I got make an audible, high-pitched tone above about 30 mph.
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