Nature developes camouflage over million of years.
Humans: i want to see it at night
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Submitted 8 months ago by PowerCube@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 8 months ago
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 months ago
You aren’t supposed to be hunting them at night.
PowerCube@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I’m not hunting them, my car is though.
These self driving cars are getting out of hand.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You also shouldn’t be hunting them with your car
VonReposti@feddit.dk 8 months ago
You can get a small high-frequency whistle you can attach on the front of the car that should scare them away. It is outside audible range and supposedly has lowered the amount of incidents from a test phase our local elder care when they placed them on all their cars.
Rhaedas@kbin.social 8 months ago
I haven't seen them in production yet, but for years I've heard of the idea of infrared detection in car systems to see warm bodies better at night on a screen or heads up display. There was also the idea of using that along with IR lighting and road markings to light up the road better. Like having high beams on without blinding other drivers, something that is far too common these days.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
I hit one years ago going 70 on the interstate at night. It totaled my car.
Hey, that just happened to me! High five!
Pancito@lemmy.world 8 months ago
is a wolf scared of a deer after hunting down one??
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 months ago
I doubt that the gene would be successful in the wild, given it would make it harder for the deer to hide from predators.
Pirky@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What if we gave them UV fur? And then modify our headlights to give off just a little UV light. Then when the light hits their fur, they glow!
Most predators don’t have UV flashlights, so this should be a viable alternative.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Give the deer a bright orange glow and then jam some deer genes into their predators so they have a harder time seeing that color. Close the loop by taking a selection of those predators’ features and distributing them at random in the glowing fish population.
ClarkFlankblast@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
“jam some deer genes”. I don’t know if that would work, but they definitely have to film it.
neuropean@kbin.social 8 months ago
Unless predators have fluorescent light it shouldn’t be a problem, it’s not bioluminescence.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 8 months ago
Ever had glofish? They look much brighter under a blacklight, but they’re still noticably colorful even under natural sunlight
Dkarma@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah… All those predators…like … Hmmm. Yeah. Looks like cars kill more deer then predators there bud.
Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 8 months ago
Except that the reintroduced Canadian wolves into yellowstone proves that one dead wrong.
Dieterlan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We’d probably end up with a situation where wild deer don’t have the gene and city deer do, excepting any cross-breeding.