{"id":151132,"date":"2022-11-26T03:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/eerie-video-of-bizarre-sheep-phenomenon-has-the-world-running-in-circles"},"modified":"2022-11-26T03:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:22:17","slug":"eerie-video-of-bizarre-sheep-phenomenon-has-the-world-running-in-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/eerie-video-of-bizarre-sheep-phenomenon-has-the-world-running-in-circles","title":{"rendered":"Eerie Video of Bizarre Sheep Phenomenon Has The World Running in Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YuZFzTpcbfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To be a sheep is to blindly follow the crowd. But is a sheep\u2019s sheepiness really enough to make an entire flock walk around in a circle non-stop for days on end?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a mystery the internet has pondered for about a week now and solving it has proved more difficult than you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n<p>On 17 November, a news outlet run by the Chinese state, called <em>People\u2019s Daily<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PDChina\/status\/1592891305721372673?s=20&t=eKKKm_ZhiIr_jqcUDVpPsg\">shared<\/a> an eerie video on Twitter of dozens of sheep in China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inner_Mongolia\">Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region<\/a> a strolling around in tight, almost perfect concentric circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be a sheep is to blindly follow the crowd. But is a sheep\u2019s sheepiness really enough to make an entire flock walk around in a circle non-stop for days on end? That\u2019s a mystery the internet has pondered for about a week now and solving it has proved more difficult than you\u2019d expect. On [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}