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300 reindeer killed by a single lightning strike
Around 300 reindeer have died following a lightning storm in central Norway in what wildlife officials described as an unusually large natural disaster.
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“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 Monday.
The tragedy is believed to have happened Friday during a thunderstorm.
According to BNO news, Elin Fosshaug Olsø, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian Environment Agency said that they found 323 dead reindeer, of which 5 had to be put down due to injuries, in a radius of 50 meters.
Cattle, deer, elephants rhinos and giraffes have all been reported killed by lightning, though not in massive number like the reindeer and sheep. “This is as far as we know a unique incident”. “Lightning goes up one leg and down another”.
“I’ve heard of groups of cow [getting killed] when it strikes the ground”, says Steve Goodman, a scientist with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Satellite Service. It doesn’t matter if they’re touching, or exactly how close they are, it matters that they were all in the area hit by lightning.
The photo is courtesy of The Norwegian Environment Agency.
So yep, with the insane amount of rain seeping into the already fast-thawing ground, those lightning rod legs, and that steadfast pack mentality, these poor reindeer had a whole lot going against them that day.
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While freakish, there have been mass deaths reported before.