not neccessarily. Deer learn anything foreign or out of place = trouble. Deer are reclusive by nature, they dont "learn" anything, imo. It's what sets humans apart from animals. Deer are conditioned to do things. Kind of like Pavlov's dogs...the dogs dont know what a dinner bell is, they are just conditioned to react to a bell with salivation because a bell always rang as food was presented.

That said, I have seen deer do crazy things. For them to walk around looking up, I dont think so IMO....for them to sense something wrong, and then look around INCLUDING in the trees, heck yes.


Has anyone here had a deer look up and peg them, without something being out of place for them to detect something is wrong, such as scent, movement, noise, lack of cover making you stick out, hunting too close to ground, etc....?

Like Matt and Jeff said, something sets them off and they look around including up IMO. Could be dead wrong, but one thing is for sure, no one will ever be certainly right on any topic involving what goes on in a deer's head...not even the brightest scientist in the world could touch that.