In contrast, the world’s biggest lightning hot spot, Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, gets struck more than 232 times per square kilometer in an average year-and endures nighttime thunderstorms 297 days of the year.
Officials surmised that an extremely high discharge of electricity from the storm on Friday afternoon – and the interaction of the lightning with the earth and water – had electrocuted the animals. In total, 323 reindeer were killed as a result of the storm, according to the agency.
Reindeer are social creatures and usually move in packs. As for why so many reindeer were killed, there appears to be an explanation.
Kjartan Knutsen, a spokesman for the Norwegian Environment Agency, told The Associated Press that reindeer often stick together during poor , occasionally leading to group casualties from lightning. Once they arrived, they counted the number of bodies. Nylend said a team of eight took samples that will be researched at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute.
This incident is something rare. He went on to say it isn’t completely uncommon to see animals killed by lightning, though.
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“I don’t know if there were several lightning strikes”, he said. As of Monday, the reindeer were still on site. One option is to leave them to decay. Wildlife officials are calling it an unusually large natural disaster.
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