i used to bicycle up the cross-canada trail behind bells corners through stittsville and out to carleton place fairly often, and there's tons of deer back there. it's less that we humans don't fall into their "natural prey" like you'll hear some naturalists suggest (either out of some remnant creationist intuition, or out of an attempt to not create panic), but when there's that much good food to eat, skinny humans full of leather and cotton are less appetizing.

you move pretty quickly on a bike like that when there's no traffic to worry about, but you can hear things. and you can feel yourself being stalked, somehow. they're back there, and if somebody were to really look for them they'd no doubt be shocked by how many.