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Strange things while hunting.

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Urufu_Shinjiro:
If you really want a head trip about animal communications look up the episode of the show Radio Lab where they talked with researchers looking into prairie dogs. Their language, and it absolutely is a language, is spookily advanced. They found they have a large vocabulary just in their warning calls, they don't just say "hey, a human is coming", they say "there's a tall human wearing red coming from the west".

PEARL DRUMS:
That would be cool to witness, I totally believe deer "talk" more than we think. I've never had anything crazy happen to me, a few screech owl attacks is about it.

Pat B:
I was sitting in a stand on the edge of just planted pines and a mature white oak grove. Some of the large oaks had died from over spray a few years before after the original pines were harvested and the area sprayed to kill off ant hardwood seedlings. This year had a very heavy acorn crop and every animal around was taking advantage of the massive mast crop.
  That day there were lots and lots of redheaded woodpeckers. More than I'd ever seen at one time. These guys were flying into the big white oaks, grab an acorn and head to one of the dead white oaks and plant the acorn is the rotted trunk. Also, this area attracted plenty of squirrels but every time a squirrel went into a live white oak a few of the woodpeckers would attack it, chasing it from the tree. This lasted all afternoon and needles to say I don't know if any deer came by or not because of all the other activity.

JoJoDapyro:
A recent interview with Steve Renella he talked about hunting with the indigenous tribes in south America. Said how strange he found it that they could pick out one small noise in the jungle of a hurricane of sound. Crows also know a lot more than they put on. Squirrels normally just ruin my hunting day.

H Rhodes:
This kind of stuff is one of the many reasons that hunting will never get old for me.  I think that most animals commnicate with each other in more ways than we know.  Deer sure have some strange sounds that they make.  A couple of years ago I had a little basket rack young eight point eating acorns under my stand.  He wrinkled his nose and then sneezed - it sounded just like a quiet human sneeze.  He then sort of shook his head and blinked his eyes and went back to eating acorns.  I thought to myself, "yeah buddy this pollen is bad this year". 
    One of the stranger moments that I ever had while hunting happened when I was sitting on the edge of a power line hunkered down near some wild plum trees.  A shrike, which is a grey looking little predator of a bird, came and stuck a grey fence lizard on a thorn on a honey locust sapling growing about ten steps from me.  He was gone for a while and I thought it was weird that he picked that spot.  I had seen them stick them on barbed wire before, but not on a tree.  Damned if an hour or two later he didn't come back and impale another one on that same tree about a foot away from the first one.  He perched there for a bit and looked at me as if to say "well what have you killed?"  I get a kick out of watching the show.  :)

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