by Jesse St. Andre | Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Visual confirmation is often a fast and affirmative stimulus for deer. Deer are a fairly social animal, and one thing they are positively conditioned to is the presence of other deer.Conditioned behavior favors the response to this visual stimulus because deer decoy use is far less prevalent in the hunting world than baiting, so most deer have never had negative associations with motionless deer. To them, they are just another deer, which to the hunter holds invaluable amounts of positive associations.