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Watch: Threatened reindeer create ‘cyclone’ effect as defence strategy against hunters

Threatened reindeer herds literally run circles around predators, creating a ‘reindeer cyclone’ that makes it nearly impossible to target a single animal.

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Reindeer Cyclones are a real thing... a swirling mass of threatened reindeer stampeding in a circle making it impossible to target an individual.. here the fawns are in the middle

This herd is on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, in the Arctic Circle
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