Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway

1223

“We are not familiar with any previous happening on such a scale,” Kjartan Knutsen, an official at the Nature Inspectorate, part of the Norwegian Environment Agency, said in a phone interview on Monday. “Individual animals do from time to time get killed by lightning, and there are incidents where sheep have been killed in groups of 10 or even 20, but we have never seen anything like this.”

“Reindeer often huddle together in groups during thunderstorms,” Mr. Knutsen said. “It is a strategy they have to survive, but in this case their survival strategy might have cost them their life. The corpses are all lying in one big group, piled together.”

A herd of reindeer was struck by lightning in Norway, killing at least 323 of the animals, officials say. Reindeer are known to huddle together during storms. By TV2, VIA REUTERS on Publish Date August 29, 2016. Photo by Havard Kjotvedt//Norwegian Environment Agency, via European
Filed in: Living Off the Grid Tags: ,

You might like:

Couple Build Amazing Shipping Container Home For Debt-Free Living
You Can Plant Midnight Oil Blue Sunflowers
Teen and his cow lose at state fair, take a nap together and win hearts of millions instead
250 Starving Lions Found In Raid On Trophy Hunting Farm

Leave a Reply

Submit Comment

© Homestead Ideas. All rights reserved. XHTML / CSS Valid.