A flock of sheep has been recorded walking in a circle for 14 whole days without stopping.
In a video from earlier this month documenting the rare event, the sheep can be seen spinning in a continuous clockwise motion inside their pen in northern China.
The confusing spectacle left viewers stunned and confused as they tried to make sense of the sheep's behavior.
The owner of the flock, Ms Meow, was shocked by the behavior pattern of the flock and said it started with just a few ewes before other members of the flock joined.
In closed circuit camera footage you can see hundreds of sheep following one another in a circle.
Other sheep stand in the middle of the circle, and some eventually decide to join the movement while others stay right in the center of the circle completely still.
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A flock of sheep in Inner Mongolia have been walking in a circle for over 10 days straight and no one knows why.
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The mysterious videos were taken in the city of Baotu in Inner Mongolia on November 4, at a farm where there are 34 sheep pens, but only the sheep in pen number 13 are moving with the strange movement.
So far it is not known what caused the sheep to behave in this way.
In the Daily Mail it was reported that there is a disease that causes some species of animals to look confused and start moving in circles.
Listeriosis (a disease that is usually transmitted through food that is infected with the bacterium Listeria) can turn on one side of the brain and cause the sheep to behave strangely.
Scientists have long studied why some other animals, such as sharks and turtles move in circular patterns.
However, they have not yet come to a conclusion about the cause.
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