A lightning strike in the Norwegian Hardangervidda national Park have killed more than three hundred deer. Still maximum number of animals killed by lightning were only a few dozen.
About the incident became known to the Agency BNO News. According to Elin Foshaug Also representing the Norwegian Agency for environmental protection, the cause of death of animals was only one category. The body of the dead deer was discovered on a small (just 50 meters) and their location indicates just death from a stroke of lightning.
Three hundred deer were killed by lightning in Norway.
The dead animals were found on a mountain plateau, the local game warden. The incident occurred during a severe thunderstorm on the evening of 26 August. But a special team of eight people was able to arrive on the scene until two days later. Were counted 323 of affected animals, of which five were still alive. However, they had to be put down because they received injuries were incompatible with life. According to ALSA, this incident is unique, and still the experts never had a chance encounter with lightning, that would cause so many death.
Hardangervidda national Park is one of the most beautiful places of Norway.
As for Norwegian scientists, they admit that today they have no scientific explanation of what happened. It is possible that the reason for this number of casualties was that the storm frightened animals huddled together. More information about the death of animals will be available only after the animal remains will be examined at the veterinary Institute. Only in the national Park Hardangervidda on the area of 8 thousand sq. km migrates about 10 thousand wild deer that is the largest Norwegian population of these animals.
These lands are grazed more than 10 thousands of wild deer.
Still, in terms of "killer", the record was the lightning, which in 2005 in Australia took the lives of from 68 cows.
