The image illustrates collectivism. Not formal government.

   The deer collectively agreed that route was the easiest path to water,
   food, antler scratching trees, or whatever.
   Ps. a town down the road initially put it's streets where the cows
   walked because cows tend to walk on the most level ground making it
   easy, in the 1800s, before industrialization and it's machinery 'came
   to town', to pave.