After growing up on a farm, and seeing the animals react to me working in the field or whileon heavy machinery as compared to say me trying to be stealthy while in a tree on the edge of a bedding area and getting winded.........the deer do react differently. I do believe deer can be conditioned to react in different ways to different types of disturbances and pressure.

Perfect example............last year on opening day in NY I hunted the Albany County bow hunting only zone in a little 5 acre patch of property between a housing development and apartment complex. This is a very urban area that is well known for massive bucks because of a lack of gun hunters and pressure. That morning I watched a neighbor walking a dog that passed within 40 yards of bedded deer in some thick cover. I observed the deer watch this guy very intently and not move an inch. Later that same morning they got up and walked by me in a single file, I was hunting off the ground with no blind and got picked off attempting to draw on the lead doe and they hightailed it out of there faster than you can imagine.