Around 100 sheep were witnessed by a farmer and passers-by in the UK as they formed an orderly ring for about 10 minutes before dispersing. Estate agent Russell Bird, who took the photographs, said, “I was quite taken aback. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I did see a dog worrying sheep nearby beforehand and the dog ran off round the hedge in a different field, so I don’t know if they were discussing that.”

Bird then noticed another sheep circle form three fields away. He added, “The only reason this circle came to an end was that the farmer came in with a tractor and some food.” However, Dan Seaborne, farm manager at Herefordshire College of Technology, doesn’t think the sheep are trying to pull the wool over our eyes with their odd behavior. “I just think they’ve been fed with dry feed in that shape - you can get snacker feeders now and you tow behind a quad and it drops pellets on the ground,” he said. “I would imagine that’s what’s happened.”

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