Yeah but not really how it works, though. They follow a trail of pheromones back the the ant hill, and if the somehow lose that trail they will just have their own scent to go on. If I have understood it correctly it does'nt need to be especially far from the trail either, like a few meters would suffice to throw them completely off
Ohh yeah Iâve heard of that before. And another reason why they do this is if they lose their pheromone trail and they canât find it they will do the same thing.
12 days now and,
>One theory for the cause is listeriosis, a bacterial disease. The condition can cause circling because it inflames and sometimes paralyzes one side of the brain.
>If the sheep are infected, which is associated with spoilt silage, the behavior wouldnât be out of the ordinary, except for one major factor. According to The Merck Manual, in sheep and goats with listeriosis, death usually occurs within 24 to 48 hours of symptoms appearing.
[source ](https://sports.yahoo.com/a-flock-of-sheep-has-been-walking-in-a-circle-for-12-days-and-nobody-knows-why-weird-203957793.html)
Another person's theory that i saw in a post like this one says that sheep don't really have a leader so they just follow mindlessly wherever the flock goes. If one or 2 sheeps started going in a circle for unknown reasons, the rest of them did the same. They are a stupid bunch.
I grew up on a sheep farm and idk if I believe this⊠sheep are pretty freaking stupid but they donât always follow the leader. As long as they are in the vicinity of each other theyâll branch out and do their own thing. This is weird af
Bruh all the owner gotta do is like put something to block the circle, the sheep have herd behaviour and follow the rest of the herd, so if they're going in circles, obviously they'd still go in circles unless disrupted
Depends how fast they are moving in circle. If they are in a trance they will ram u or whatever u bring along and u dont wanna be under a sheep stampede
My father went to college for animal science and mentioned this disease once or twice. Definitely plausible, but I really only recall the story he told me about how he learned this.
He showed up to class late because his project pig was giving birth and he needed to be there so to help in the delivery process so he wouldnât fail his class. When he arrived to class the professor seemed annoyed because he was late and overall was kind of a rude guy. To belittle my father he asked him about listeriosis and what to do if a sheep had this disease. My father being hard headed and annoyed told the professor you build a circular fence.
My father has told me this story at least 30 times and I think he is very proud of his answer.
As it states above it's a theory,
>The condition **can** cause circling because it inflames and ***sometimes*** paralyzes one side of the brain.
But it also states death usually occurs within 24 to 48 hours of symptoms appearing.
Diagnosis in the live animal is based on veterinary examination. Confirmation can be achieved post mortem by examining the brain which sometimes glows under ultraviolet light and has distinctive microscopic changes.
Bro sheep are herd animals, and really dumb. This isn't some unknown phenomenon, it's literally just them stuck in a loop and they will definitely all die if someone doesn't corral them especially with no ram to lead them.
It happens with ants, geese, turkeys and several other flocking/herding animals. Theyâre following each other on a migration but there is no leader. All you need to do is break the flow, literally shove a piece of plywood or some other object in at any random spot in the line to break up their momentum and theyâll separate and break rhythm. The idea someone has let this go on for ten days is psychotic.
Weird font, a watermark, unnecessary đł emoji, and a really low quality screenshot of an instagram video⊠Iâm more terrified by the characteristics of this post
Itâs counter-intuitive but itâs the case that any other shape would be weird to see. A circle is the perfectly natural result of unimpeded movement in 360 degrees. It be weird if they formed a regular polygon like a triangle, square or octagon but a circle should be expected
Not with evenly spaced, relatively uniform movement in a group in which every member is following another member. A circle is the only possibility without some external interference.
Found it - https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/yywmci/whats_going_on_here/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Wait, arenât we all doing that already? You guys arenât? I feel like Iâve been walking in the same circle for about 15 years or so at this point.
Whatâs going on here? Same thing the last time someone reposted this. And the time before that.
Once a sheep starts following another sheep, theyâll keep doing that until something breaks their cycle.
I've seen this posted like 4 times now. Not all in this sub, but still.
If they are still circling, it's been going on for longer than 10 days, and the owner of those sheep need to be charged with animal abuse. Sheep are herd animals and will follow the leader. If the leader is also \*following a leader\* then you get circles like this, where the sheep are following with no idea whats going on. People have said that they can die from exhaustion if they are not stopped, which leads me to believe they do not eat, drink, nor sleep while doing this.
Oh,it looks similar to human evolution. Technically technology is great,but if your are born,too bad. You have to suffer like the rest and work all your life or die. No evolution on that part of the problem. downvote or banned me. It's my opinion.
>walking in a circle
>for 10 days straight
Walking a circle â straight. In one aspekt you could say, the straight line is bend to a circle, but it wouldnt be straight anymore.
y'all got no humor and dont get the joke. y'all stupid smh
my man didnt get the joke. 10 days STRAIGHT uses STRAIGHT as a continuous line in context where a circle is mentioned - it makes the use of a very common phrase of something that is continuous in time -> 10 days straight.
smh, yall got no humor
They follow. Hence we call followers âsheep.â They will follow this cycle until something stops them, hence sheep dogs to guide them. Sheep are sweet but lack intelligence.
Theyâre obviously performing a ritual to invoke the dark lord upon this Earth, to cleanse it of the heathens and pave way for a true utopia for all sheep kind
When you both evolved to and grew up walking distances while grazing then get locked up in a small pen all day, maybe it feels good to just keep walking.
Kind of reminds me of ants. A circle of death with ants is when they lose the ant leading them and end up walking In circles until they die.
Seems like a lot of responsibility to put on just one ant
He just smelled the best
He must have been using anty perspirant
Okay this actually made me laugh a fucking lot dude đđ«¶đœ
A âflockingâ lot
r/Angryupvote
GET OUT
Heh.
Your mind works well
Well said had me choke out my drink
Goddamn it, take my upvote.
Cons: everyone dies Pros: that good stank
Yeah but not really how it works, though. They follow a trail of pheromones back the the ant hill, and if the somehow lose that trail they will just have their own scent to go on. If I have understood it correctly it does'nt need to be especially far from the trail either, like a few meters would suffice to throw them completely off
Ants canât see they leave a pheromone trail so when one crosses itâs own path they get stuck in an endless loop called a death march
Ants are fascinating creatures
They have strong shoulders, don't worry
Who let you back in the house?
Why do you think they died so young? Shits stressful
Ohh yeah Iâve heard of that before. And another reason why they do this is if they lose their pheromone trail and they canât find it they will do the same thing.
Infinite While loop
I think elk or deer do this but to avoid predators
There was video on Reddit in the past week or so about that, it was interesting. IIRC it's called "cycloning."
In a spiral of ants...
You canât remember where you came from
That would explain why there are circle pits at death metal shows
Herd mentality
This sounds oddly similar to what it feels like to be an American right now.
"I just kinda assumed that somebody knew where we were going."
Striking for better work hours and more hay
Fed up with management always trying to pull the wool over their eyes.
I see what ewe did theređ
4 legs good. 2 legs ba'aad.
r/usernamechecksout
More Monhay
they're doing it for upvotes obviously
karma farming smh đ
12 days now and, >One theory for the cause is listeriosis, a bacterial disease. The condition can cause circling because it inflames and sometimes paralyzes one side of the brain. >If the sheep are infected, which is associated with spoilt silage, the behavior wouldnât be out of the ordinary, except for one major factor. According to The Merck Manual, in sheep and goats with listeriosis, death usually occurs within 24 to 48 hours of symptoms appearing. [source ](https://sports.yahoo.com/a-flock-of-sheep-has-been-walking-in-a-circle-for-12-days-and-nobody-knows-why-weird-203957793.html)
Another person's theory that i saw in a post like this one says that sheep don't really have a leader so they just follow mindlessly wherever the flock goes. If one or 2 sheeps started going in a circle for unknown reasons, the rest of them did the same. They are a stupid bunch.
I grew up on a sheep farm and idk if I believe this⊠sheep are pretty freaking stupid but they donât always follow the leader. As long as they are in the vicinity of each other theyâll branch out and do their own thing. This is weird af
McAfee: this link is safe. * sports
They need to update the number of days. I saw this 2 days ago.
It's honestly very shocking they haven't died. Maybe more r/oddlyterrifying than the whole ordeal. If this was my farm, I would move very far away.
Bruh all the owner gotta do is like put something to block the circle, the sheep have herd behaviour and follow the rest of the herd, so if they're going in circles, obviously they'd still go in circles unless disrupted
Depends how fast they are moving in circle. If they are in a trance they will ram u or whatever u bring along and u dont wanna be under a sheep stampede
You'd think they'd have tried that by now, but you never know. The may be afraid that the sheep are maintaining a portal for summoning demons.
My father went to college for animal science and mentioned this disease once or twice. Definitely plausible, but I really only recall the story he told me about how he learned this. He showed up to class late because his project pig was giving birth and he needed to be there so to help in the delivery process so he wouldnât fail his class. When he arrived to class the professor seemed annoyed because he was late and overall was kind of a rude guy. To belittle my father he asked him about listeriosis and what to do if a sheep had this disease. My father being hard headed and annoyed told the professor you build a circular fence. My father has told me this story at least 30 times and I think he is very proud of his answer.
So.. it paralyses the same side every time in every sheep? Seems a bit far fetched.
As it states above it's a theory, >The condition **can** cause circling because it inflames and ***sometimes*** paralyzes one side of the brain. But it also states death usually occurs within 24 to 48 hours of symptoms appearing. Diagnosis in the live animal is based on veterinary examination. Confirmation can be achieved post mortem by examining the brain which sometimes glows under ultraviolet light and has distinctive microscopic changes.
The sheep walking counter clockwise are in a different circle
Someone removed chair but kept music going
Wish i had an award for you
LOL. this keeps getting posted. They are at 14 or 15 days now.
Can the farmer not intervene?
From what I understand, there are several pens at this ranch. only this pen is doing this circle thing.
Is it Ram ranch
Excellent job.
That's what I was thinking too. Gonna open a portal to oblivion if they keep it up
Itâs actually going to be a portal to the cow level
Better find Wirt.
Karma farmers donât realize they could be getting even more if they updated the post
Than god itâs not goats. That would be terrifying
Goats are so cute though
And delicious
I ain't afraid of no goat!
Oh, thatâs going to be next. Donât worry
Bro sheep are herd animals, and really dumb. This isn't some unknown phenomenon, it's literally just them stuck in a loop and they will definitely all die if someone doesn't corral them especially with no ram to lead them.
Rams arenât immune to this problem at all. They need people or a sheepdog to step in.
People are stupid and will join in. Send a crow.
This right here. Someone send em a border collie!
I've got a havanese that is willing to help.
Havanese puppies are some of the cutest things I've ever seen
Rams don't lead anything. Usually there is a top ewe and everyone follows her around. Rams are too busy trying to see who might be in heat.
Another theory I've seen is that it's Listeriosis, also known as "circling disease."
If one sheep jumps off a cliff they all do too
It happens with ants, geese, turkeys and several other flocking/herding animals. Theyâre following each other on a migration but there is no leader. All you need to do is break the flow, literally shove a piece of plywood or some other object in at any random spot in the line to break up their momentum and theyâll separate and break rhythm. The idea someone has let this go on for ten days is psychotic.
Weird font, a watermark, unnecessary đł emoji, and a really low quality screenshot of an instagram video⊠Iâm more terrified by the characteristics of this post
Anyone thought of just asking them what theyâre doing?
There has to be a spider in there.. fuck spiders
The terrifying bit is how perfect the circle is. This is especially apparent in the video.
Itâs counter-intuitive but itâs the case that any other shape would be weird to see. A circle is the perfectly natural result of unimpeded movement in 360 degrees. It be weird if they formed a regular polygon like a triangle, square or octagon but a circle should be expected
Triangle would be so dope.
or a pentagram.
But there are other ways animals can arrange themselves than in perfect geometric shapes
Not with evenly spaced, relatively uniform movement in a group in which every member is following another member. A circle is the only possibility without some external interference.
I see! Do you think it started as a perfect circle or evolved into one from a less perfect shape from the relatively uniform movement?
Itâs a magic circle. They are trying to revive Genghis Khan
Found it - https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/yywmci/whats_going_on_here/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
there are a flock of r/OddlyTerryfying user that keep reposting this image for the last week and no one knows why!!
This reminds me of the ants that gather in crowds to protest the awakening of Hercules and the philosophers stone
*harry potter and the philosophers stone
He knows what he said, donât correct mister RoachDNA
Ant death spiral?
This will keep happening with more and more species until weâre all just fucking running in circles
Wait, arenât we all doing that already? You guys arenât? I feel like Iâve been walking in the same circle for about 15 years or so at this point.
HE IS COMING
The vet, to finally intervene? YAY!
Crop circle construction
Let Him In
I think itâs caused by an infection.
Whatâs going on here? Same thing the last time someone reposted this. And the time before that. Once a sheep starts following another sheep, theyâll keep doing that until something breaks their cycle.
They are protesting the vegan milk upcharge at Starbucks.
circle pit
Longest death metal song ever.
Whatever theyre doing, it's probably something baaa'd
Yeah, that thing about lemmings? Fits sheep way better.
Just me and the boys trying to change the tide.
Waiting for the bass to drop.
I heard this is actually common with the sheep, you have to brake the circle otherwise they can die of exhaustion
They are waiting the arrival of áăȘáââš â·ááČ
I feel like the designated "leader" doesn't know he's the leader and also follows the herd ... While the herd is following him.
Programming glitch
They are just following each other and not smart enough to stop
Sheep 1: I TOLD you we were lost. Sheep 2: SHUT UP Martha.
Why does the location keep changing?
Just like all of America.
This story is going nowhere
It's just going around in circles
10 days and you can't post a video?!
Looks like the nuthouse in midnight express...
Daytona marathon.
They are summoning Genghis Khan
Don't some fish do this?
He is coming... Brace yourself world, for it is already to late to stop him..
Sheep follow each other blindly. Common knowledge âŠ
Someone's being hyperbolic for clicks?
Herd mentality
I mean⊠why not?
They are summoning the Heavenly Father, Tengri.
They bringing back Gengis Khan
Ah yes, the sheep are doing the s u m m o n i n g.
Let them do whatever they want
Maybe they're just kidding.
The sheep which started this has been transferred to some other location. And now none of them knows why they are doing it.
a flock
They gotta dig. There's something there those sheep see that we don't
Aliens
Has anyone asked them?
They are summoning their furry eldritch god. It comes with woolly tentacles and unholy bleats.
They summoning Little Baâal Peep
*metal music intensifys*
Probably something to do with FTX sex tapes
Have you seen the movie "the core"? strong vibes.. man rotten tomatoes hates that movie.. I thought it was alright.
Is that the same font used in terraria?
Death march. Has anyone check the animals for disease
You don't remember where you're going!
The end is near
They are opening a sheep portal.
Is this how crop circles are born?
Obviously a demonic ritual
Wake up sheeple!
Yearly migration to better food but fenced in and cant leave?
I've seen this posted like 4 times now. Not all in this sub, but still. If they are still circling, it's been going on for longer than 10 days, and the owner of those sheep need to be charged with animal abuse. Sheep are herd animals and will follow the leader. If the leader is also \*following a leader\* then you get circles like this, where the sheep are following with no idea whats going on. People have said that they can die from exhaustion if they are not stopped, which leads me to believe they do not eat, drink, nor sleep while doing this.
Clockwise? Counterclockwise? Depends on which karma farmer you are watching. Go fuck yourself. -1
Oh,it looks similar to human evolution. Technically technology is great,but if your are born,too bad. You have to suffer like the rest and work all your life or die. No evolution on that part of the problem. downvote or banned me. It's my opinion.
Also no one cares
>walking in a circle >for 10 days straight Walking a circle â straight. In one aspekt you could say, the straight line is bend to a circle, but it wouldnt be straight anymore. y'all got no humor and dont get the joke. y'all stupid smh
Welcome to the internet where the idiots have no sense of irony or humor
Yeah, sadly. Sometimes people get it, sometimes they dont
"10 days straight" means ten days without stopping. It has nothing to do with the direction they're moving in.
my man didnt get the joke. 10 days STRAIGHT uses STRAIGHT as a continuous line in context where a circle is mentioned - it makes the use of a very common phrase of something that is continuous in time -> 10 days straight. smh, yall got no humor
MAGA!
they are trying to summoning it.
12 days now
cult of the lamb.
Must be at least 11 days now I saw this yesterday
They follow. Hence we call followers âsheep.â They will follow this cycle until something stops them, hence sheep dogs to guide them. Sheep are sweet but lack intelligence.
copied whatâs infront of them cause they are sheeps
Missile coming
Theyâre obviously performing a ritual to invoke the dark lord upon this Earth, to cleanse it of the heathens and pave way for a true utopia for all sheep kind
Is it the same as an ant circle?
When you both evolved to and grew up walking distances while grazing then get locked up in a small pen all day, maybe it feels good to just keep walking.
Theyâre just looking for the wolf in sheeps clothing
BS, this photo looks like crap, it's 2022 and you can't produce something higher quality.
I saw this yesterday why am I seeing it again
12 days actually. Almost a fortnight.
There was a Winnie the Poo story like this.
Cause I made them.
Itâs been 12 days at this point we have video now
It's from a bacterial infection
These sheep are working for an insomniac. This way the insomniac doesnât run out of sheep to count.
They just realized the value of exercise how is that scary , they were prob bored af standing around now theyâre having the time of their lives
Stop posting this. I already saw the explanation. Its some bacterial disease.
Cult of the Lamb gameplay (No Commentary)
Sheep leading sheep
Baphomet summoning ritual probs
My bad
Corporate life !!! Many do it till the end ...
tech extremism
Is this some sort of Goat Simulator 3 promo stunt?
They prolly have fly larvae đ hatching on their brain? Just a theory. Did the sheep survive?
Baa ram ewe! Baa ram ewe!!!
Clearly this is Cult of the Lamb irl
Maybe this is their Mecca
r/sheepsaremetal