why a deer freezes in the headlights?

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why a deer freezes in the headlights?

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Because deer don’t have the context or intelligence necessary to discern what the hell those headlights are. They’re mesmerized by them, and don’t associate them with danger in any fashion. Being able to recognize and respond to automobiles was never evolutionarily selected for so the instinct or capacity simply doesn’t exist in the species.

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