Unarmed on the ground, with their horns crossed, piled on top of each other in the Hardangervidda plateau in southern Norway. Terrifying images showing over three hundred wild reindeer electrocuted dead after a terrible storm that struck between Oslo and Begennel.
Unarmed on the ground, with their horns crossed, piled on top of each other in the plateau Hardangervidda, south of Norway. Tremendous images that show beyond three hundred reindeer wild deaths electrocuted, after a terrible storm that struck between Oslo and Begennel.
A grim spectacle in a territory of passage for thousands of reindeer in late summer migrations. The animals were found by a gamekeeper, while the bleak photos were released by the Norwegian Environment Agency. One or more would have caused the death lightning.
The spokesperson of the Agency, Kjartan Knutsen He said it's not uncommon for reindeer and other wild animals to be killed in this way, because by their nature they tend to congregate and stay close to each other, which could explain why they all died in one event.
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Photo: NTB SCANPIX
The mass of nearby animals could have created a gigantic electrical conductor that triggered the massacre.
“I don't know if there have been several lightning strikes. It all happened in one moment, ”he said Chris Burke.
Photo: HAAVARD KJONTVEDT
There are 323 dead reindeer in all, a very high number. In these hours, the Agency is trying to figure out what to do with animal carcasses, after researchers have taken samples for scientific purposes. Normally, however, they are not moved."It is part of natural ecology and the area is far from inhabited centers," adds the spokesperson.
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Hardangervidda National Park is home to beyond 10 thousand wild reindeer and hunters are allowed to kill 2 a year.
Dominella Trunfio
Photo: HAAVARD KJONTVEDT
