Norway: flash kills......

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.....over 300 caribous/reindeers at Nationalpark Hardangervidda
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Good Lord - what did this?
 
lightning, holy crap talk about odd.
 
Lightning? Wow, never heard of that many being killed!
 
WOW! Saw that this morning
 
Wow, that's incredible. We had 2 beef cows killed by lightning one summer and have seen other herds lose up to a dozen in one lightning strike, but nothing even close to 322 animals. Very sad.
 
Terrible news. Really bizarre.
 
Wow, hard to imagine a single strike would have killed that many.
 
That is incredible. What a shame for them.
 
One of the reasons to run for the low lands when you are hiking high in the rocks.

Must have been a good storm and some nice wet ground to catch so many.
 
Electrifying.

Never heard of lightning killing so many animals with a strike.
 
The Aussies apparently have a lost a few sheep (all in one go) to lightning


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It is indeed very odd...this happened within my county..

Our wildlife people are investigating the incident..
 
Amazing! The power of Mother Nature can never be under estimated but I would not of even considered lightening to be the cause if not told?
 
Maybe, maybe not. I know nothing about this, but here's something to consider from a participant on Gary Reeder's site (an American gunsmith):

Lightning is a part of the E3 (Environmental Effects) area of Electromagnetics that I worked in for over 48 years and I have never seen a strike foot print with the number of leaders that would be required to be present to cover such a wide area. The normal strike cross sectional diameter of a normal 1.5 megavolt 25000 amp strike is about 6 inches. I would be more inclined to look for some sort of disease that strikes fast and would kill a lot of these ungulates rapidly. Perhaps anthrax or some other disease that would act within a few days. The bellies are well swollen in the picture so I suspect that they have been dead over a period of several days. Long enough for a disease to have killed that many raindeer. Just my opinion in the for what its worth department.
 
This is a true reflection of how powerful mother nature is! If i didn't see it i would have never believed that lightning could take out so many animals in a flash.

I don't agree with the disease comment, in my opinion if it was disease they would never had died together, surely they would have wondered off from each other a bit.

But makes you think if they weren't possibly poisoned with something really fast acting and deadly.
 

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