Utah elk are smarter than the hunters

[Danjet500]

Elk in Utah move to private lands during hunting season.

State-funded BYU study finds elk move when hunting season starts — and it's causing problems

Research from BYU wildlife sciences professors finds that when hunting season starts, elk in Utah move off of public lands — where they can be hunted — and onto private lands — where they cannot be hunted. And then, when hunting season is over, they shift right back to public lands.

news.byu.edu

 

[contender]

Animals will always go to a secure area when pressured. Not uncommon.

 

[RoninPA]

I see that with the whitetails that hang around our yard and the fields behind our place. Come deer season (not just hunting season but really more specifically the deer season here in PA) they disappear, gone. A week after deer season ends, they are back in the yard foraging under the bird feeders and such. We do not feed them, but they will find and eat the seed that the da*n squirrels toss on the ground when they go after the sunflower seeds in the bird seed.