While they may be a beautiful animal, they are a very real danger around highways. I just happened to find and hit one with a 2 week old car brand new car back in the late 80's. It just came out of nowhere and after hitting it, (it lost the battle), the entire front end was virtually gone and the car was written off. I never travel on any major highway today without worrying that another will appear out of nowhere. There is no love lost between us I am sorry to say. Luckily, neither I nor my wife were injured.