Can someone explain to me what the deal is with deer? Don't these stupid animals ever sleep!?!

I'm driving home tonight, around 1:30 in the pitch black morning. On my way from Rosetown to Saskatoon you have to pass through this nature preserve, or whatever the hell they want to call it. Anyway there's the obligatory 'deer ahead' signs, to be acknowledged as you pass into Hell's obstacle course.

Its 1:30 in the morning. Why aren't these stupid animals sleeping!?! I see three or four of them, wandering around somewhat aimlessly in the ditch. Someone smacked one earlier in the day, as the carcass, and its blood, are spilled over the asphalt. You'd think the deer would sleep at night, when they get a rest from the relentless pursuit of hunters keen for a set of antlers or some meat for sausage. Nope, deer are party animals, using the cloak of darkness to play suicide games on human roads.

Stupid animals. Why haven't we hunted them to extinction?