Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty... as well as the inability to fall asleep and relax in your sleep state. There are too good of chances that you gon' get killed immediately by other woodland critters or a human hunter. That's why I see this head-rolling behavior in deer and other animals. You can see vigilant behavior up to the point of falling asleep- and it continues into a head nodding or something like this.
@@Jay_Flippen I appreciate the explanation. Makes perfect sense to these characteristics in the deer. "Always on the lookout" in a sense. Some people I showed this too said that it was possibly rabies or some other sickness. To me, he looks like he found a good place to take a safe nap, but was still hesitant on falling asleep fully in fear of his safety lol
@@FirearmFanatic1357 There was actually another clip of a deer doing this exact same thing, but without the conspicuous background of wire-netting fence. If I had to guess, I'd say this is right next to a window of a rural house. (I think the sound in the last split second indicates such.) I don't think a captive buck used for studding or controlled hunts would have this alarmist semi-sleep state I hypothesized earlier.
@@Jay_Flippen yeah, this was in my side yard of my old house. Lol. Surely not captive. It jumped that 5' field fencing and used to just lay down on my lawn for hours.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty... as well as the inability to fall asleep and relax in your sleep state. There are too good of chances that you gon' get killed immediately by other woodland critters or a human hunter. That's why I see this head-rolling behavior in deer and other animals. You can see vigilant behavior up to the point of falling asleep- and it continues into a head nodding or something like this.
@@Jay_Flippen I appreciate the explanation. Makes perfect sense to these characteristics in the deer. "Always on the lookout" in a sense. Some people I showed this too said that it was possibly rabies or some other sickness.
To me, he looks like he found a good place to take a safe nap, but was still hesitant on falling asleep fully in fear of his safety lol
@@FirearmFanatic1357 There was actually another clip of a deer doing this exact same thing, but without the conspicuous background of wire-netting fence. If I had to guess, I'd say this is right next to a window of a rural house. (I think the sound in the last split second indicates such.) I don't think a captive buck used for studding or controlled hunts would have this alarmist semi-sleep state I hypothesized earlier.
@@Jay_Flippen yeah, this was in my side yard of my old house. Lol. Surely not captive. It jumped that 5' field fencing and used to just lay down on my lawn for hours.