It all started on Twitter on November 16, when a Chinese media published a video in which we see a herd of sheep going around in circles, for no apparent reason.
The description of the video indicates that the scene would have taken place in China and that these animals would have performed this strange choreography for ten days without interruption.
The video quickly made the rounds of the Internet, and little by little, other Internet users began to post videos showing animals with bizarre behavior.
For example, a colony of ants forming a circle, or hundreds of birds flying in all directions, while remaining in the same place.
These videos were all posted around the same time on Twitter, which gives an even more disturbing character to the phenomenon.
So inevitably, some Internet users have tried to seek explanations: apocalypse?
5G waves?
Many eccentric hypotheses have been evoked, whereas it is quite simply a question of known and documented collective movements in these animals.
We explain everything in the video placed at the top of this article.
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