Deer are stupid common in the south-eastish part of America.
Like it's honestly a rare week when there isn't the remains of a deer (however much wasn't completely pulverized) strewn somewhere along the side of the highway I take to work.
Yeah. It can be a real nasty blow to your car. You have to be careful driving in the south country during whitetail deer breeding season, which I think is from late September to early December, where bucks will try to run down doe and doe will be running frantic from the bucks. Neither of them will be paying attention and will run across roads.
If a deer population in any given region gets too big, it can cause a lot of damage on the roads and for other reasons. Like Gollgagh says, it's not uncommon to see crushed gore on the sides of highway roads out here.
I think moose are a little more relaxed in this regard, but they are even bigger and they can have a temper too.
Let me put it this way: So long as you're slamming into sufficient mass that it won't be sent flying away when you slam into it, basically everything you hit with your car is going to hurt it about as much as any other thing for a given speed of collision. A full-grown bull moose is about 1500 kg, which is basically on par with a mid-sized car. So imagine slamming into a parked car at the speed you're slamming into the moose, and you've got a good idea of the damage you're going to take.
Well, moose are built differently than a car. A moose's mass is elevated on it's legs in a way that a car's isn't. When a car hits a moose, it basically trips the moose with it's front bumper, which causes the main mass of the moose to fall diagonally into the windshield/onto the hood of the car. This means that the moose actually get hit with much less force (breaking glass can be an effective cushion, or at least it is more so than an engine block). This still totals the car, because if you drop 1.5 tons on your hood the car probably won't run after, but it doesn't stop the car in the same way that hitting a wall or another car would, because the main mass of the car (the engine) never really meets the main mass of the moose (the body) head on. It honestly seems like someone up above designed the moose as a joke to destroy cars, because they're just built in the best way to survive a car collision.
Deer overpopulation is a problem with the lack of predators such as wolves and mountain lions. It is such that disease in deer also increases as a result, making the meat unsafe for humans.
Deer overpopulation is a problem with the lack of predators such as wolves and mountain lions. It is such that disease in deer also increases as a result, making the meat unsafe for humans.
Don't forget the part where they completely fuck the local plants, creating openings for invasive plant species that they cannot/won't eat, and then starve as a result.
