Quote Originally Posted by Witis View Post
It wasn't that I thought it was impossible to kill a deer via bow and arrow, I merely found it difficult to believe that there were arrow only seasons when there are other methods that get herbivorous prey that can't fight back on the table much more quickly and with much less effort.
Technically, they could fight back. They just don't. We have some raging debate about wolves out here, at the moment. One point that people tend to overlook is that if deer or elk were able to band together, they'd drive wolves to extinction. Of course, we'd then drive the deer and elk to extinction, too, but it would certainly be a different dynamic. It may sound like a flippant conjecture, but it really shouldn't be. Consider that an elk is much bigger, stronger, and somewhat faster, than a wolf. Therefore, wolves have to hunt in packs to take down an elk. Why haven't elk learned to act in packs to destroy wolves? They do act in packs (herds), and that does provide certain benefits, so it is clear why they would live that way, so why haven't they taken the next step?