I just saw this article:
with no answer to why it happened. I’ve tried a few other news sites, and they all have no explanation. So I figured this is the perfect thing to ask you guys! What’s up with this?
It may be the result of poor education. The sheep may not have the basic knowledge to form, say, a dodecagon.
The article speculates that some prankster sprinkled some dry sheep chow on the ground in the form of a circle. Works for me. Easier way to form a circle than tromping down crops for half the night.
Duh, it’s the annual meeting.
It’s the way the pipe band left them.
Groups of bagpipers compete in a circle facing inward.
Sheep were one of the first domesticated animals because of how easy it was for a shepherd to lead the flock; they’d all follow the leader. If one were to get a line of sheep formed, and then get the first one to follow the “last” one, you’d have a ring. Perhaps that’s what the broken part is in the top right of the circle?
Nah, they follow each other in a clump, not single file. And sheep only follow other sheep, not people. The way a shepherd moves a flock is to stand behind it and prod the animals forward. Completely different from ducklings.
Drum circle. Gotta be.
Paging Hal.
Perhaps they are ducks in disguise.
Well, how do you celebrate the solstice?
Chairface Chippendale strikes again!
All I know is if it involves a sheep, there’s usually a horny Kiwi around. So I guess it’s a way of watching each other’s backs in case any are in the vicinity.
They’re making a daisy chain for a porno.
It never fails.
Competing herds to see who gets to form the Olympic Rings at the London Games in 2012.
Can anyone spot a small pig in the photo?
“That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.”
One possible explanation is a “fairy ring”. The fungus may be something the sheep like, or perhaps it enhances the growth (or flavor?) of the nearby grass.