I’ve been reading about this too as well as reading diverse opinions, etc., as to what could be causing it. While many of the explanations make perfect sense, none of them explains this behavior in full, especially regarding the length of time these animals, insects, and others are behaving in this peculiar manner.
Magnetic Pole excursions. The poles are moving more rapidly toward an estimated location just above the equator somewhere in the Indian Ocean, where they will meet. The behavior is possibly related to pole reversals that have happened in the past. Birds and bugs rely on Earth's magnetic field for navigation. Also, our Magnetosphere—the force that protects us from solar and space radiation in the form of CME's and gamma particles and have the potential to toss us back to the Stone Age—is weakening. The Magnetosphere is about 85% (or less than) of what it was 100 years ago. 5G radiation is a good study subject and should not be excluded from consideration, but geology tells us pole reversals happen every 2 to 3-hundred-thousand years. The last one was 780 thousand years ago so we are way over due. My bet is on magnetic disruptions and all those birds are our 'canaries' in the coal mine.
Sorry to ruin the vibe but: This is essentially just a positive feedback loop that is not at all uncommon in animals that follow each other instinctually, and that cannot fly/swim. When the head animal reaches the trailing animal with either an obstacle creating the loop, or an enclosed space, they often end up in such circles.
In insects the behavior is actually extremely common. The insects shown are Ants and "Processional Caterpillars" - two types of insects that follow each other instinctually (the Caterpillars even get their species' common name from it). For ants its phermones they follow, for processesional Caterpillars its silk/phermones - both of which can form loops.
They follow the silk or phermone in front of them. If the lead insect catches the rear insect with an obstacle next to them, that they won't/walk walk over, they will circle. Its an extremely common "glitch" in Army Ants and other "moving colony" type ants.
Herding/flocking animals, that can't swim or fly (that are stuck an X/Y axis, with no Z axis), often end up in similar loops to those of social insects that can't fly. For herding animals this usually happens when their herding/migration instinct kicks in when pinned indoors, or when there is a large obstacle that prevents them from seeing that they are merely circling around the obstacle - eventually one animal will break the loop and others will follow (unless locked indoors, then it can continue for hours).
Haha, makes you wonder. Or maybe they have brain fog from vaxx shedding and have been told that booster sheds will be built in the middle of the circles they are walking!
I’ve been reading about this too as well as reading diverse opinions, etc., as to what could be causing it. While many of the explanations make perfect sense, none of them explains this behavior in full, especially regarding the length of time these animals, insects, and others are behaving in this peculiar manner.
5G.....arrrrrgh! Hey!
Magnetic Pole excursions. The poles are moving more rapidly toward an estimated location just above the equator somewhere in the Indian Ocean, where they will meet. The behavior is possibly related to pole reversals that have happened in the past. Birds and bugs rely on Earth's magnetic field for navigation. Also, our Magnetosphere—the force that protects us from solar and space radiation in the form of CME's and gamma particles and have the potential to toss us back to the Stone Age—is weakening. The Magnetosphere is about 85% (or less than) of what it was 100 years ago. 5G radiation is a good study subject and should not be excluded from consideration, but geology tells us pole reversals happen every 2 to 3-hundred-thousand years. The last one was 780 thousand years ago so we are way over due. My bet is on magnetic disruptions and all those birds are our 'canaries' in the coal mine.
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/GeomagneticPoles.shtml
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-researchers-track-slowly-splitting-dent-in-earth-s-magnetic-field
Makes sense
Sorry to ruin the vibe but: This is essentially just a positive feedback loop that is not at all uncommon in animals that follow each other instinctually, and that cannot fly/swim. When the head animal reaches the trailing animal with either an obstacle creating the loop, or an enclosed space, they often end up in such circles.
In insects the behavior is actually extremely common. The insects shown are Ants and "Processional Caterpillars" - two types of insects that follow each other instinctually (the Caterpillars even get their species' common name from it). For ants its phermones they follow, for processesional Caterpillars its silk/phermones - both of which can form loops.
They follow the silk or phermone in front of them. If the lead insect catches the rear insect with an obstacle next to them, that they won't/walk walk over, they will circle. Its an extremely common "glitch" in Army Ants and other "moving colony" type ants.
Herding/flocking animals, that can't swim or fly (that are stuck an X/Y axis, with no Z axis), often end up in similar loops to those of social insects that can't fly. For herding animals this usually happens when their herding/migration instinct kicks in when pinned indoors, or when there is a large obstacle that prevents them from seeing that they are merely circling around the obstacle - eventually one animal will break the loop and others will follow (unless locked indoors, then it can continue for hours).
Nothing sinister, sorry.
no need to apologise. the comments under the article make the same points.
the Chinese cheep are t(apparently) taking weeks to break out of their loop though!
:D I should read the whole article next time. And indeed, I wonder who is more independent, and would break the loop faster: Goats of CCP members?
What in the world ??
Are they testing out their new 5g control mechanism?
Haha, makes you wonder. Or maybe they have brain fog from vaxx shedding and have been told that booster sheds will be built in the middle of the circles they are walking!