Just found out deer can remember you for years and hold grudges
I was reading some random wildlife study last night from a university in Pennsylvania and stumbled across a fact that still bugs me. Turns out deer have really good long term memory, like for 3 to 5 years, and they can recognize individual humans by sight and smell. If you chase one off your property or yell at it, it will remember you and avoid your yard specifically, but also might come back to eat your hostas during the night out of spite. I went down a rabbit hole after that and found documented cases where deer avoided someone's garden for months after getting sprayed with a hose, but then targeted that same person's flower bed when they planted new stuff. Now I look at the doe that hangs around my backyard totally different. Has anyone else noticed weird behavior from deer that lines up with this?