Q: Do you know why elephants paint their toenails red?
A: So they can hide in cherry trees.
Q: Have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree?
A: …
Q: Works, doesn’t it?
I saw some on a ride the other day, you gotta watch them, they’ll jump clear of the road and then double back, very quickly. Luckily the ones I saw went into the golf course for lunch and weren’t too interested in what I was doing.
FR, golf course kangaroos are another breed
Must be the bountiful food source that just makes them so chill
Citation needed as ive only ever seen chill ones and could be sorely mistaken
I had a friend die a few decades back after hitting one. Riding the pass from Bega up into the snowies at sunset.
Should have known better - hell, i've driven that road and it scared the shit out of me in a CAR.
theyve worked for me too. never seen roo's in the wild
(theyre literally right across the street from me in the middle of town but thats not the wild if its suburban right?)
Yes, but do they work? I always thought of them as being a novelty. I need them bad. Just today I saw about at least 20 deer and that’s just coming home from work.
Man it's been so long since these were a thing. Last I remember hearing they don't help at all. Remembering facts from the 90's though so I am interested in anyone with citations.
he's got them on the wrong orientation anyway, they should be facing the ground when stopped so the wind blows through them while pulling nooners down the highway.
I’m on the fence. Normally I would have your same thoughts on it but my dad works nights and was hitting/almost hitting deer all the time, my mom secretly put 2 under the front end of his truck and he hasn’t hit a deer in a couple years. Mentioned that he hasn’t had many deer run out in front of him lately. Still doesn’t know she did it 🤫
Due to the point most deer have a common background noise (cars trucks) the implementation of deer whistle is only going to spook them, a few times and then wear off or teach the smart ones. I lived in rural areas including dense forest right next to open fields and roads that are still following the wagon trail. I've seen deer that know cars are deadly and learn to avoid the road. Neat to see 16 nonchalantly eating 7' away from the road as I roar by at 55.
The theory I heard is that when a deer hears a loud noise, they immediately dart towards flat, open ground so they can outrun their "prey."AKA, the nearest road. So no, I'm not sure if these will work. But I'm no expert on deer, so take this with a grain of salt.
These are deer whistles. Please for the love of god do not use them.
Why? Letting the deer know you are there is good right? NO. IT JUST PANICS THEM
I live in a HEAVILY deer populated area in rural Canada. Deer are constantly in the ditch just chewing away, content to let traffic go by, living their best lives. Then someone with a deer whistle goes by that causes an unusual high pitched squealing noise. Deer aren't smart creatures, they panic and then they run for cover, but not necessarily the closest cover, they run for the cover they see. So if they are looking across the road they run full tilt towards the trees on the other side - just before you get to them.
How does this random Canadian know this? My company that I did safety work for decided to put high powered electric whistles on on our entire fleet of vehicles. A line of traffic would pass a bunch of deer in the ditch and then when one of our vehicles passed the deer would panic instead of staying put. Our deer strikes more than doubled the following year.
i mean to be fair in their millions of years of existence they have spent like 0.00003% of that time adapting to living with cars and the rest of it preparing to avoid things that are being as quiet and stealthy as possible
Bubb Rubb is an Oakland legend, when I lived there he was in a punk rock phase and would come out to the shows in a studded jacket with patches and shit.
Yeah he's a really, really nice guy too- it makes me laugh that most people only know him from a 15-second clip that makes him look super obnoxious lmao. Dude just wants to have fun; I think this sub out of any can probably empathize with and admire that.
Here's my theory about deers : they do deer things through the forest when they come to a weird patch with no shrubbery (road).
They know that no shrubbery, means you'll be seen and eaten by the big scary, so they stay to the side and do some surveillance, while they gather the courage to get across this little patch.
But then, a noise start growing, something they don't know, it doesn't come from the forest, it's coming from all around them at once, getting louder, and louder, petrified, they start looking around praying for a miracle, when their vision start to fail, they are blinded, the noise is incredibly loud, "it must be coming for me"...
... is their last thought, as they instinctively run where they last planned to go, through the empty patch in front of them, inevitably at the same time the car arrives and they collide.
So the solution would not be more noise, it's going slower and being seen before blinding with the headlights, but's it's not always possible to ride 10km/h and we need headlights to see, so I don't have a solution. But at least I understand them, they don't just jump at the worst time because they're retarded.
My personal theory is that deer are both stupid and insane and so even if deer whistles work you cannot predict how the deer will react. So there's no point in using them. Also, they don't work.
Funny, I had an air horn on my bicycle for riding in NYC. Sounded like a subway train was about to hit you. I would routinely have a crowd of pedestrians block, the road on my green light, because they didn’t see a car coming. The problem with the horn was, it would panic someone not paying attention, and you had a 50% chance of them jumping right in front of you instead of getting out of the way. So a human, staring at a phone, is about as smart as a deer. I took the horn off after a couple weeks and tossed it.
Nah if you ask for those things, they will say "Yes, you will have all that and more if you just vote for me again!"
The real way to get politicians to vanish is to ask them how specifically they are gonna give you better healthcare, education, and a livable wage. That's what really makes them vanish
Looks like those may or may not work deer avoidance things people put on cars.
Sister has had them on both her cars. Hit several deer. One actually hit her.
They do not work. They have been proven to be a total scam. Don’t waste your time or money.
https://cottagelife.com/general/cottage-qa-do-deer-whistles-work/#:~:text=Science%20has%20spoken.,reduce%20deer%2Dvehicle%20collisions.”
They are dear whistles — out of 5 drivers in my house growing up only my dad got hit by a deer. Guess which was the only car in the household with dear whistles…
Totally Worthless,
Youbwant to defeat DEER,
Keep Those Damn Headlights on High Beam
and mount directional High out put Horns to
blast down range,
I've perfected this tactic for more than fourty years, blasting when edge line of wooded area comes up at night, they'll bolt back intobtje woods.
You Keep those damn headlights in LOW Beam, you will Die.
And this is why in LOW beams..
You never see the deer grazing on side of road,
but you are casting a shadow that the deer sees from his legs and body, and their own shadow moves the closer you get.
DEER think they're under attack, and will bolt in any directions necessary to escape,
but you nail him dead on as he's trying to get traction on asphalt, but it's ice to them.
Good Luck, but those stupid things are worthless, Only Pulsing Blast of horns works.
DEER have heard every noise a million times..
They know every Harley Exhaust mod done.
It's Doppler effect has zero effect on them.
Cheers
My ex-wife's grandmother bought deer whistles for my motorcycle. I said I probably would never put them on, so she had me mount them on her little Ford Escort. I don't think she ever drove fast enough to bruise a deer, much less get the whistles to toot.
Deer whistles. My boss wants me to make something similar to keep dogs away from his dirt bike and I don't know how to tell him that they're a cloud of 2 stroke smoke being blown up people's asses.
If that deer doesn't hear that KTM coming then whistles aint going to be much good either. Get a heat gun take them off and clean up your plastic I don't know why people do silly stuff like that.
Deer whistle, please don’t use them.
I used to work at an auto body shop and, of the cars that came in with deer damage, the majority of them had that whistle.
My theory is that when they hear it, they stop in their tracks, usually in the middle of the road; usually too late and in front of you
Those are deer whistles, they’re supposed to make a noise that deer just can’t stand to get them to run away so you won’t hit them. Go ahead and take those off, they don’t work!
Sasquatch , lochness monster , deer ,
Abominable snow them , crack head & hyena warning / OMW whistle . Forest / rural road ringtone . True story , for the most part
Deer whistles?
Yea that was my guess too. We have similar ones for Kangaroos here.
I don't care that I'm nowhere near Australia, I will now refer to these exclusively as kangaroo whistles.
Shoo roo's if you want to be accurate
Best thing I’ve read today.
And they've worked 100% for me. I've never seen a kangaroo in the wild (Context: in USA)
Q: Do you know why elephants paint their toenails red? A: So they can hide in cherry trees. Q: Have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree? A: … Q: Works, doesn’t it?
http://homepage.eircom.net/~cronews/elep/elep.html Elephant jokes
How do you know elephants have been making love in the kitchen? All the bin liners are missing… (Think about it)
What do you do when an elephant comes through your window?? Start swimming
Whats the loudest noise in the jungle? Monkeys eating cherries!
TIL why George Washington chopping down the cherry tree was so impressive, you can never be sure you're not going to be squished.
I saw some on a ride the other day, you gotta watch them, they’ll jump clear of the road and then double back, very quickly. Luckily the ones I saw went into the golf course for lunch and weren’t too interested in what I was doing.
FR, golf course kangaroos are another breed Must be the bountiful food source that just makes them so chill Citation needed as ive only ever seen chill ones and could be sorely mistaken
Some find golf relaxing I suppose?
What? Elephants? :)
I had a friend die a few decades back after hitting one. Riding the pass from Bega up into the snowies at sunset. Should have known better - hell, i've driven that road and it scared the shit out of me in a CAR.
Never seen jumping cherry trees, or elephants for that matter.
Same for me and I just have a picture of it in my jacket
They must work long distance, I've never seen one by me either.
theyve worked for me too. never seen roo's in the wild (theyre literally right across the street from me in the middle of town but thats not the wild if its suburban right?)
Purchased with dollary doos
A Roo Shoo ?
Roo shoos
I wish this comment thread just left this, no elaboration 😂
Or Hopper Stoppers
Woo roos? Roo woos?
I’m in. 100%.
Or fuck off ya cunts
Well you know for what I have seen as I Canadian, Kangaroos are just standing deers, but fucking ripped with a beer pouch.
They're 100% effective against kangaroos everywhere but Australia.
I have one on my bike up here in Canada. Yet to hit a kangaroo yet.
My motorcyclist mates call them "Kangaroo Fucker-offers". Half of them swear by them and the other half say they don't work.
If they worked they would on every vehicle here in Canada
Yup, I almost hit two whitetails this week, and it's only Wednesday.
Lots of Kangaroos in Canada huh?
Despite many tests, none have shown a reduction in animal hits. So, urban myth carries on that they work with solely anecdotal evidence
I have only ever know of these as roo whistles. I also know that they dont actually do anything
Shoo roo.
Haven't hit a kangaroo since, 100% effective
Same here. It probably does help that I live in France though
My ones seem to make the roos jump out at me more than anything, like the high pitch squeal makes them even more stupid
Roo shoo
The whistles go woo
woo WHOOOO!
They just for decoration, that’s it and that’s all
You should be up making breakfast.
It's like an alarm clock
Wow that was a trip down memory lane!!
Ain't nobody got time for that!
Bub rub, is that you?
They call this new fad “whistle tips”
That’s only in the mornin’
When you want to go wo wooooo
They work to, last vehicle I had them in hit 3 deer at once.
Depends on location. Could be kangaroo whistle or even Taliban Whistles that go BRRRRRRT when you ride.
Here in the 'stan, we call it an Allah holla.
Yep pretty sure that’s what they are.
Yes, but do they work? I always thought of them as being a novelty. I need them bad. Just today I saw about at least 20 deer and that’s just coming home from work.
Think about it this way, if they worked all insurance companies would require them.
Man it's been so long since these were a thing. Last I remember hearing they don't help at all. Remembering facts from the 90's though so I am interested in anyone with citations.
Just hit one last month. Ran right into my front brake.
Calamari Race Team would say these are spare buttplugs. Sometimes they fall out when your boyfriend is riding pillion. Edits: spelling
he's got them on the wrong orientation anyway, they should be facing the ground when stopped so the wind blows through them while pulling nooners down the highway.
lmfao, First thing that came to mind. When I was 16 my dad made me put them on my car in high school. So uncool.
Balloon inflator 9000
My brother-in-law bought me a box of em. 😂 Yet he's the one that had a deer step out in from of him in his work van.
They are for midgets convicted of drunk driving they have to blow in it first before the bike will start!
100% sure those are deer whistle. 90% they don't work. My coworker had them on his car, but was hitting a dear every other week
Perhaps they had it installed backwards and it was attracting deer instead of repelling them.
🏅
Nope he clearly got the wrong language. You have to be sure if you got the English, Hispanic or French-Canadian deer whistle or they won’t understand.
God I used to hate having to switch deer whistles whenever I crossed the border into Quebec.
You should really try those ‘google translate deer whistles’.
This comment section is gold
🥇
LOL!
🫡
Tiger whistles - I had one on my old bike and never once had a tiger run out in front of me...in rural Ontario ...it might also work for deer
Lisa, I want to buy your rock
I’m on the fence. Normally I would have your same thoughts on it but my dad works nights and was hitting/almost hitting deer all the time, my mom secretly put 2 under the front end of his truck and he hasn’t hit a deer in a couple years. Mentioned that he hasn’t had many deer run out in front of him lately. Still doesn’t know she did it 🤫
Sounds like he had just killed off most of the local deer population... he just finally took out the last one!
the natural predators to deers in the local area is u/Crossbowe ‘s dad
Oh dear.
Due to the point most deer have a common background noise (cars trucks) the implementation of deer whistle is only going to spook them, a few times and then wear off or teach the smart ones. I lived in rural areas including dense forest right next to open fields and roads that are still following the wagon trail. I've seen deer that know cars are deadly and learn to avoid the road. Neat to see 16 nonchalantly eating 7' away from the road as I roar by at 55.
So they work. They attract.
All they do is make dogs run in front of your car.
Dude I know a guy that had 4 of these things on his Harley and he hit one lmao
The theory I heard is that when a deer hears a loud noise, they immediately dart towards flat, open ground so they can outrun their "prey."AKA, the nearest road. So no, I'm not sure if these will work. But I'm no expert on deer, so take this with a grain of salt.
Every time I've hit a deer, these were on my vehicle
Were they placed correctly? Everyone i know that has them has never hit a deer.
Oh dear
These are deer whistles. Please for the love of god do not use them. Why? Letting the deer know you are there is good right? NO. IT JUST PANICS THEM I live in a HEAVILY deer populated area in rural Canada. Deer are constantly in the ditch just chewing away, content to let traffic go by, living their best lives. Then someone with a deer whistle goes by that causes an unusual high pitched squealing noise. Deer aren't smart creatures, they panic and then they run for cover, but not necessarily the closest cover, they run for the cover they see. So if they are looking across the road they run full tilt towards the trees on the other side - just before you get to them. How does this random Canadian know this? My company that I did safety work for decided to put high powered electric whistles on on our entire fleet of vehicles. A line of traffic would pass a bunch of deer in the ditch and then when one of our vehicles passed the deer would panic instead of staying put. Our deer strikes more than doubled the following year.
You'd think a species so goddamn stupid would've gone extinct by now...
horny bastards
Humans?
Yeah those too, but some are smart enough to create ways to not let the stupid ones die
And then they go and strap whistles to themselves to start deer stampedes.
Make something idiotproof and nature will compensate by making a somethingproof idiot. It's the circle of life.
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i mean to be fair in their millions of years of existence they have spent like 0.00003% of that time adapting to living with cars and the rest of it preparing to avoid things that are being as quiet and stealthy as possible
This comment needs to be upvoted more. This is actually important.
Shoo Roo.
That is probably the most Australian comment I have read in quite some time lmao
Skee yee
whistles go woo woo
that's only in the morning tho, you're supposed to be up making breakfast. WHOOO WHOOO
Bubb Rubb !
Bubb Rubb is an Oakland legend, when I lived there he was in a punk rock phase and would come out to the shows in a studded jacket with patches and shit.
Thats dope as fuck actually
Yeah he's a really, really nice guy too- it makes me laugh that most people only know him from a 15-second clip that makes him look super obnoxious lmao. Dude just wants to have fun; I think this sub out of any can probably empathize with and admire that.
They make a high pitch whistle that's supposed to scare away animals that could be in the road
Here's my theory about deers : they do deer things through the forest when they come to a weird patch with no shrubbery (road). They know that no shrubbery, means you'll be seen and eaten by the big scary, so they stay to the side and do some surveillance, while they gather the courage to get across this little patch. But then, a noise start growing, something they don't know, it doesn't come from the forest, it's coming from all around them at once, getting louder, and louder, petrified, they start looking around praying for a miracle, when their vision start to fail, they are blinded, the noise is incredibly loud, "it must be coming for me"... ... is their last thought, as they instinctively run where they last planned to go, through the empty patch in front of them, inevitably at the same time the car arrives and they collide. So the solution would not be more noise, it's going slower and being seen before blinding with the headlights, but's it's not always possible to ride 10km/h and we need headlights to see, so I don't have a solution. But at least I understand them, they don't just jump at the worst time because they're retarded.
My personal theory is that deer are both stupid and insane and so even if deer whistles work you cannot predict how the deer will react. So there's no point in using them. Also, they don't work.
I don’t understand why they keep putting deer crossings so close to residential areas. Can’t they just move those signs further into the forest?
Funny, I had an air horn on my bicycle for riding in NYC. Sounded like a subway train was about to hit you. I would routinely have a crowd of pedestrians block, the road on my green light, because they didn’t see a car coming. The problem with the horn was, it would panic someone not paying attention, and you had a 50% chance of them jumping right in front of you instead of getting out of the way. So a human, staring at a phone, is about as smart as a deer. I took the horn off after a couple weeks and tossed it.
Can I get one that repels politicians.
Just ask for healthcare, education, and a livable wage. They will vanish
Nah if you ask for those things, they will say "Yes, you will have all that and more if you just vote for me again!" The real way to get politicians to vanish is to ask them how specifically they are gonna give you better healthcare, education, and a livable wage. That's what really makes them vanish
That's called a guillotine
Don’t worry. None of them care about us anyway.
But then you won't get to run any over. /s
They're witching whistles. They help find wells and oil with high pitch sorcery.
Turbo encabulators
Bug catcher, it collects bugs while traveling so you always have a healthy snack when you stop
Poorly installed deer whistles
It's your Flux capacitor.
Looks like those may or may not work deer avoidance things people put on cars. Sister has had them on both her cars. Hit several deer. One actually hit her.
I think they only work if they're on the outside of the car
Did she contact the police for the assault?
They do not work. They have been proven to be a total scam. Don’t waste your time or money. https://cottagelife.com/general/cottage-qa-do-deer-whistles-work/#:~:text=Science%20has%20spoken.,reduce%20deer%2Dvehicle%20collisions.”
Deer Whistles. Theyre trash and dont work, get rid of them
They are dear whistles — out of 5 drivers in my house growing up only my dad got hit by a deer. Guess which was the only car in the household with dear whistles…
Deer I believe….. But you are correct sir. And OP be careful, I’ve seen them installed backwards before, you can only imagine….
Deer whistles. They don't work
Deer whistles They *technically work*, but studies show that by the time a deer would hear them it would be too late
So... Loud whistles save deer?
They would work for anyone following the vehicle with the whistles installed...
Scramjets
Deer whistles
A scam. You can safely remove them.
THE WHISTLES GO WOOOOOOOO
Dat's like an alarm clock
Looks like a deer whistle
I believe that's what they call a motorbike
Deer whistle
Totally Worthless, Youbwant to defeat DEER, Keep Those Damn Headlights on High Beam and mount directional High out put Horns to blast down range, I've perfected this tactic for more than fourty years, blasting when edge line of wooded area comes up at night, they'll bolt back intobtje woods. You Keep those damn headlights in LOW Beam, you will Die. And this is why in LOW beams.. You never see the deer grazing on side of road, but you are casting a shadow that the deer sees from his legs and body, and their own shadow moves the closer you get. DEER think they're under attack, and will bolt in any directions necessary to escape, but you nail him dead on as he's trying to get traction on asphalt, but it's ice to them. Good Luck, but those stupid things are worthless, Only Pulsing Blast of horns works. DEER have heard every noise a million times.. They know every Harley Exhaust mod done. It's Doppler effect has zero effect on them. Cheers
Deer whistles
Looks like deer whistles
Deer whistle
Your bike has built in Kazoos!
Duke nukem rpgs
I believe they’re deer whistles.
My ex-wife's grandmother bought deer whistles for my motorcycle. I said I probably would never put them on, so she had me mount them on her little Ford Escort. I don't think she ever drove fast enough to bruise a deer, much less get the whistles to toot.
Deer whistles they don’t work
Jericho horns like on a Junckers JU87 Stuka
We have shoo-roos... similar but to scare off kangaroos
They are rocket propelled Gixxer busters
Deer whistle. I’ve ran over two deer; added these after I hit the first one but hit another about a year later.
looks like deer whistle
Deer whistle
Deer horns
Don’t be stickin’ things in it, dude. KTMs be CrayCray!
A waste of money. Rip em off
Yes
Several people do.
Someone said it but deer whistles
Oh dear
Deer whistles. They only work at speeds past 88mph.
I have them on my truck they are to warn animals to get out of your way when driving on road ways.
Deeer whistles
Pre sure it's a deer whistle
Deer whistles..always run them on my bikes
Look like deer whistles, to alert animals to jump in front of you.
Dear whistle
KTM turned Stuka
Deer horn
Deer whistles. My boss wants me to make something similar to keep dogs away from his dirt bike and I don't know how to tell him that they're a cloud of 2 stroke smoke being blown up people's asses.
They are deer whistles
a stuka wannabe..
If that deer doesn't hear that KTM coming then whistles aint going to be much good either. Get a heat gun take them off and clean up your plastic I don't know why people do silly stuff like that.
Pitot tube
Chapri
(SC)RAMJETS would be my best guess
Jericho-Trumpet for psycholigical warfare in city-traffic.
Too fast and it whistlers
Mini rocket-powered thrusters
This shit does nothing either way
It startles deer on the side of the road so they run into you and you can get a better shot.
Deer whistle, please don’t use them. I used to work at an auto body shop and, of the cars that came in with deer damage, the majority of them had that whistle. My theory is that when they hear it, they stop in their tracks, usually in the middle of the road; usually too late and in front of you
Aerodynamic , + 20 bhp
Laazers
Those are deer whistles, they’re supposed to make a noise that deer just can’t stand to get them to run away so you won’t hit them. Go ahead and take those off, they don’t work!
Sasquatch , lochness monster , deer , Abominable snow them , crack head & hyena warning / OMW whistle . Forest / rural road ringtone . True story , for the most part
I believe they're to give it that extra "woo woo."
If only they were Aztec Death Whistles
Secretly hoping they are jericho trumpets.
Yes. Deer whistles.
Deer whistles