Honestly sheep are known to circle because they follow whatever sheep butt is before them, when stressed. There are all sorts of videos of them running around cars circling it because that is where the first sheep ran. The more concerning part is they haven't done something to break it up.
They likely have leptospirosis. I'm not sure why they haven't been tested/treated/slaughtered. They'll just infect other animals and it's cruel to let them walk themselves to death.
My grandma was a farmer and she told me sheep secrete a chemical from their hooves to follow each other's scent, so maybe, I dunno... these sheep are bored and decided to walk in a circle?
That makes all the sense. This same thing happens to ants, I was wondering if it had a similar explanation. Entire ant colonies have died of starvation going in endless circles when part of a scent trail is erased, causing them to backtrack and start the circle. Crazy.
Ya know it’s funny because ants do something similar and often also get caught in circles like this called death spirals iirc , because they will go until they die if not stopped
There's videos of ants following pheromone trails in death spirals, following what they think is the way home until they collapse and die of exhaustion. Hopefully sheep are a little brighter and take a break before they exhaust themselves.
they are stuck on a migratory circle. they will literately do this untill they exhaust themselves and keel over and die. They wont eat or drink they believe they are just following a herd and migrating . You need to break this shit up its not interesting or good you have to snap them out of this circle.
This was my thought. The way to get a herd of sheep moving is to walk in a direction with purpose. They will follow anything familiar that is walking away from them.
This herd as listeriosis from what I understood it’s a brain disease that cause them to walk in circles it’s contagious even to human at some degree it’s treated with heavy use of antibiotics and quarantine of the infected animals
No this was my first thought but I lacked the name "Death Spiral". Animals are smarter than we give them credit for and they could be doing a death spiral because they see the impending fate and are accepting it..
Listeriosis is a potential cause. It's a bacterial infection which can cause odd behaviour in animals including circling, staggering, loss of appetite and death
Stand around and look bored. It works. I used to do it on the playground in elementary school. Then in the upper grades a small group of friends and I would just walk around the outside of the yard along the fence during recess. They just don't have that big of a yard.
Look up ant death circles. They follow each other and don’t stop until they are exhausted and die. They need to break it up and quit thinking this is some sort of bullshit sign from a god and save them before they kill themselves.
Ants do this shit too, until they fatigue themselves to death. The same will happen here if someone doesn't FUCKING STOP IT. Guess the farmer only cares about his short famous stint, and not the health of his animals nor the revenue he's about to lose? Makes zero sense
Is this like the ant thing? Are they all about to die? I know that with reindeer (and maybe other deer idk) this is a defense mechanism. When a predator approaches or attacks the entire heard encircles the vulnerable members and runs in a circle. This serves two purposes: 1. It makes it very difficult for the predator to gain access to young/injured heard members and 2. It disorients and confuses the predator and when they inevitably try to flee from the circle, they often get tramples and killed by the heard. Maybe this is a similar reaction? EDIT:Typo
No it's a sheep herd thing because they see the sheep in front moving they follow same for the one behind . Then it becomes a huge chain where the first sheep ends up following the last sheep
I remember reading about how when ants do this they end up circling until they die unless the circle is somehow broken because all they know to do is follow. Makes me wonder if this is the same thing?
This is usually a sign of Listerosis, this is a death march sadly. The fact that they have survived 12 days is nothing short of a miracle, some of them must be following the others and catching it as they go.
Follow the leader but the leader is a dumbass and started following the leader and so on and so forth in a never ending cycle only stopped by starvation.
probably a death spiral like ants do. herd mentality of just following whoever’s in front of you but because its a circle they just keep walking until they collapse.
Some sort of viral cordyceps that’s infected them, and will soon species jump and the “Cult of the circle” will finally rise up and the new Khan will reign for a thousand years.
O saw this on Twitter the other day. A while ago (thanks to a TikTok) I found out about CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) and I read a couple articles about how it affects deer. Now I'm no biologist and I don't know what's going on here but safe to say this reminds me of that in an eerye way.
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Can we get a real answer as to what the fuxk is going on here?
Honestly sheep are known to circle because they follow whatever sheep butt is before them, when stressed. There are all sorts of videos of them running around cars circling it because that is where the first sheep ran. The more concerning part is they haven't done something to break it up.
Nobody knows. It's not the circle disease. That disease kills the animals in 24-48 hours. These fuckers have been going hard since Nov 4th.
Usually when humans do weird shit like this the answer is ergot fungus.
Predator nearby; caribou do the same thing when a wolf is close. It's harder for the canid to single one out as a target.
They likely have leptospirosis. I'm not sure why they haven't been tested/treated/slaughtered. They'll just infect other animals and it's cruel to let them walk themselves to death.
Listeriosis. Circling disease. We had horses go blind and cows abort their calf's. Treated with antibiotics.
News reported it is a disease. Forget if it is viral or bacterial.
Just a glitch in the matrix
“Just follow the one in front of you”.
They are making a portal to goat simulator
Goated game
I think they're fucking summoning a king universe sheep to wipe out humans. Hopefully they start at 55.7520° N, 37.6175° E.
I've been waiting for this day for a long time
I think Goat Sim 3 just came out, I'm excited to play it soon.
My grandma was a farmer and she told me sheep secrete a chemical from their hooves to follow each other's scent, so maybe, I dunno... these sheep are bored and decided to walk in a circle?
Sheep singularity.
That makes all the sense. This same thing happens to ants, I was wondering if it had a similar explanation. Entire ant colonies have died of starvation going in endless circles when part of a scent trail is erased, causing them to backtrack and start the circle. Crazy.
They have circling disease. It will kill them if not treated.
man all the replies are different and i dont know which is correct if any
Sheep death spiral
Ya know it’s funny because ants do something similar and often also get caught in circles like this called death spirals iirc , because they will go until they die if not stopped
…shit. Sheeps are starting to make the ant circle of death
Ants do the same thing on occasion
There's videos of ants following pheromone trails in death spirals, following what they think is the way home until they collapse and die of exhaustion. Hopefully sheep are a little brighter and take a break before they exhaust themselves.
Sheep NASCAR. Nothing to see here
NASBAA
Who would the NASCAR sponsors be- Baaad Light?
Shake and Baaaaahhke
Baaaaaaascar
They are going in the wrong direction. Only left turns in NASCAR
I can hear all the drunk herders now
Ricky Baaaby
National Association of Sheep Circling A Ranch
We only turn left tho
"Guys, we've made it! We're on reddit, can we stop now?"
or they summoning baphomet
I don’t know man but it looks scary af
they are stuck on a migratory circle. they will literately do this untill they exhaust themselves and keel over and die. They wont eat or drink they believe they are just following a herd and migrating . You need to break this shit up its not interesting or good you have to snap them out of this circle.
I mean it is very interesting imo, not good though of course
wth.. watching that just about knocked me right to sleep.
Don’t count them!! It’s a trap.
The reason for the vague numbers. "Hundreds" No way to get an actual count.
Hundreds you say? Somebody cant count
They keep falling asleep
They fell asleep counting and just gave up and threw an estimate out 😂
See, I'm up to thousands. I started from the beginning and keep waiting for the end, but there just keeps being more of them.
I'm up to a couple a thousand right now. It's easy just fixate on a single point and as a sheep passes by you count it.
Feels like British politics at the moment
"at the moment"??? Since at least 2016.
The leader becomes a follower. And well, looks like this lol
Cult of the lamb
Mmm... Lamb cultlets
Good game. Most pleasing game to have 100% of recent
Worst game of musical chairs ever.
cool, a similar phenomenon can be observed with ants, called
This was my thought. The way to get a herd of sheep moving is to walk in a direction with purpose. They will follow anything familiar that is walking away from them.
In a spiral of ants..
This herd as listeriosis from what I understood it’s a brain disease that cause them to walk in circles it’s contagious even to human at some degree it’s treated with heavy use of antibiotics and quarantine of the infected animals
Reindeer cyclone is kinda the same too
You had me right at the end... I was like fucking shitty... Wait..
i believe you're referring to
No this was my first thought but I lacked the name "Death Spiral". Animals are smarter than we give them credit for and they could be doing a death spiral because they see the impending fate and are accepting it..
The circle seems a little too perfectly circular, no?
i would imagine if a group is walking in a circle, it would start to look like a perfect circle after about an hour...
I was thinking the same thing!
That means theirs something algorithmic going on in their brains.
Is that the Kabaaaal?
The black sheep in the outskirts are corralling the rest in, they are touched by chaos
This happened in Inner Mongolia which is a province of China, not in the country Mongolia
TIL
Please don't be a portal to hell. If 2022 could just end in peace I would be happy.
Honestly I'm tired of all this shit...
When the band finally rip, that is gonna be one mean pit.
Lucky its not in Australia. One kangaroo gets to them and that's a hole heap of woolie jumpers
This is very un-ewe-sual.
Get off the internet dad!
Doesn't that explain some of those "alien crop circles"?
Pretty tame mosh pit
let the baaaa-dies hit the floor
And nobody stepping in to break them up before they die of exhaustion? OK.
how do u know they won't stop when they're tired tho
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Baallah Akbaar !!
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
Looks like they’re bored and stuck in a small pen
Listeriosis is a potential cause. It's a bacterial infection which can cause odd behaviour in animals including circling, staggering, loss of appetite and death
These sheep have just been reading too much Stephen King clearly
Metal band lead vocalist requested a circle pit and they’re obedient.
Sheep Mecca?
When you're supposed to herd and graze and are locked in a cage, what else would you do
Stand around and look bored. It works. I used to do it on the playground in elementary school. Then in the upper grades a small group of friends and I would just walk around the outside of the yard along the fence during recess. They just don't have that big of a yard.
On strike from putting people to sleep at night.
Look up ant death circles. They follow each other and don’t stop until they are exhausted and die. They need to break it up and quit thinking this is some sort of bullshit sign from a god and save them before they kill themselves.
It’s like people with Fitbits…
They are counting sheep
They are acting sheepish
Only one is using Apple Maps, the rest are following him ....
Practicing for when they’re a doner kebab.
Pause the video and count them.
Baa ram ewe
Ants do this shit too, until they fatigue themselves to death. The same will happen here if someone doesn't FUCKING STOP IT. Guess the farmer only cares about his short famous stint, and not the health of his animals nor the revenue he's about to lose? Makes zero sense
They’ll patch it in the next update
Hundreds?
They're summoning Baphomet to finish off 2022
Wtf else they gotta do? Seems normal to me. Like you have any idea what it's like to be a sheep.
They're bored
Is this like the ant thing? Are they all about to die? I know that with reindeer (and maybe other deer idk) this is a defense mechanism. When a predator approaches or attacks the entire heard encircles the vulnerable members and runs in a circle. This serves two purposes: 1. It makes it very difficult for the predator to gain access to young/injured heard members and 2. It disorients and confuses the predator and when they inevitably try to flee from the circle, they often get tramples and killed by the heard. Maybe this is a similar reaction? EDIT:Typo
No it's a sheep herd thing because they see the sheep in front moving they follow same for the one behind . Then it becomes a huge chain where the first sheep ends up following the last sheep
Well congrats to your knowledge, but the circles are empty.
Could be a mass hysteria event, not sure if it happens in animals but stuff like this has happened to people for over a thousand years
Maybe some kind of ergot fungi in ther feed?
That’s just their turn for time in the prison yard.
Guys… that’s the sign. The end is near!
Goat version of crop circles
call Mulder & Scully!
The mystery of crop circles has been solved...
In pen 13, they're summoning Shaun.
Why are they doing this?
They're just doing it for clout. Sad.
The earth's core is slowing down.
Hundreds where
Hail Zoltan
Don't the sheep realize the music has stopped and all the chairs are gone?
Religious people be like : repent ! Repent!
That is because THEY KNOW!
They are trying to summon their goat Demi-god, someone better give the Winchesters a call…
Still waiting for the beat to drop
The bleat* FTFY
Summoning baaaaaaahphomet
They are clearly summoning Baphomet.
The end is nigh
my people been voting for the same president for 20 years now
Woke sheeps with their surrealist art/commentary on today's society. Nothing to see here.
I do think this is good or funny.
Mosh pit
What if it's some kind of sheep cult to open up the portal to a parallel universe?
Probably Muslim sheep walking around the Ka'baaaaaa
They are signaling the coming of Galactus, Devourer of Worlds.
Has anyone tried to break them up?
I'm pretty sure ants do something similar but they'll end up dying. Not sure if that happens to sheep too?
Matrix is glitching again
Guyzzz were finally about to see the wrath of the mighty aliens on our planet earth just wait for a few months until were under the rule of aliens
Sheep 1 "I was following you."
The end of the world is nigh...
The summoning approaches
CIRCLE PIT!
Only Temple Grandin can figure out this mystery. Get her in a plane to Mongolia STAT!
Baaa-ram-ewe!!! Baaa-ram-ewe!!!
Baphomet is coming.
That’s called drafting in Nascar
This is clearly the first beacon of the apocalypse. 😳
Apparently this is a baaaaaad sign of an illness
Keeping warm and staying safe from predators? Like caribou?
The cult of the lamb
Why? I want to know why
It’s the end of the world, next up, cats and dogs sleeping together.
What else they got to do
I’ve seen this before, probably just some dude at the front in a sheep costume leading em around
A chop circle?
I remember reading about how when ants do this they end up circling until they die unless the circle is somehow broken because all they know to do is follow. Makes me wonder if this is the same thing?
Antichrist is born?
they're summoning baaghis kahn
This is usually a sign of Listerosis, this is a death march sadly. The fact that they have survived 12 days is nothing short of a miracle, some of them must be following the others and catching it as they go.
Probably just listening to Lamb of God
Looks like a bunch of liberals
Those sheep ate some good grass
What!!! Nobody noticed the UFO hovering above them???
over and over, the pheromones...
Sheep in America have been following an ass for the last 2 years, they must watch mainstream US news too
Please does anyone have sauce the title (12days) seems like a stretch....
Not even 100 sheep in the video.
Follow the leader but the leader is a dumbass and started following the leader and so on and so forth in a never ending cycle only stopped by starvation.
And the Goat king rises on the 14th Day….
Why don’t somebody stop them?
probably a death spiral like ants do. herd mentality of just following whoever’s in front of you but because its a circle they just keep walking until they collapse.
People do this at Disneyland - but the circle is a little bigger.
He is coming soon
Should we join in???
Look at all these elon haters
Brain parasite?
The Return of Khan!!!
They are summoning the return of Genghis Khan!
Might be listeria (listeriosis) also know as circling disease
Circle pit 🏃🏻
They just following the one ahead of them.
bug in the matrix man
They’re summoning their true leader Tom Braaah-dy
Some sort of viral cordyceps that’s infected them, and will soon species jump and the “Cult of the circle” will finally rise up and the new Khan will reign for a thousand years.
If people started doing this, the mainstream media would be on it in a New York minute.
O saw this on Twitter the other day. A while ago (thanks to a TikTok) I found out about CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) and I read a couple articles about how it affects deer. Now I'm no biologist and I don't know what's going on here but safe to say this reminds me of that in an eerye way.
OPEN THIS FUCKIN PIT UP
Sheep mosh pit
Wow. That can’t be a good omen.
They look like the trumpers touring the capital
They are summoning their sheep God 🐑
This is how it starts. Next come the aliens and then the Elder Gods.
Instead of playing “Duck, Duck, Goose”, they’re playing “Sheep, Sheep, Sheep.”
It’s mental instability from being locked up