The newspaper reported that hundreds of sheep have been going in circles for 12 days without interruption in Mongolia. People’s Daily🇧🇷
On social media, videos of sheep walking in a circle inside their pen in the city of Baotou, Mongolia, have gone viral. No one can explain the cause of this event.
Great sheep secret! Hundreds of sheep run in a circle for more than 10 days in northern Inner Mongolia in northern China. The sheep are healthy and the cause of the strange behavior remains a mystery. pic.twitter.com/8Jg7yOPmGK
– People’s Daily, China (PDChina) November 16, 2022
Several theories have surfaced online and some people speculate that the behavior may be a way to protect themselves from predators. Another theory is that sheep could be sick with listeriosis, a disease that can inflame one side of the brain and cause sheep to behave strangely.
said Matt Bell, professor and director of the Department of Agriculture at the University of Hartpury in England Newsweek that “sheep spend a lot of time in the pen, and this can lead to stereotypical behaviours, with spinning in repetitive circles out of frustration with being confined and limited”.
According to the owner of the flock, this event began with a few sheep walking in a circle, but soon others joined in. This behavior has only been verified in sheep from one of the barns.
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