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[–] Anticorp 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem with that is then you don't see all of the other wildlife that is fun to come across while in the wilderness. You won't have any more random deer or racoon sightings, since everything will run from your bell. Obviously it's better to be safer, but I'm generally pretty happy that we don't have fearless apex predators in our forests. We have a few apex predators with the black bear, grey wolf, and cougar, but those are all very wary of humans, and generally not a threat like the brown bear would be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's fair, though it doesn't seem to bother the little critters like rabbits or racoons for some reason. But yeah, it'll def make the deer scamper off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think it's because their strategy for avoiding predators is "Stay in trees or hide in holes" rather than "Run away"