King's solemn salute to his mother: Charles III leads procession with his three siblings behind the Queen's coffin as well-wishers line streets Meghan and Harry delayed 'Fab Four' Windsor walkabout with William and Kate because they had to change into formal mourning dress 'I told them I'd put them over there': Meghan Markle's awkward exchange with royal aides as they help her and Harry with flowers Queen 'knew she wasn't going to come back' from Balmoral and 'wanted to pass there because she could actually leave her crown at the gates' Prince Andrew is heckled as he follows Queen's coffin through Edinburgh by lone spectator who called him a 'sick old man'. King Charles III and his three siblings watch as the ornate crown of their late mother the Queen is placed upon her flag-draped coffin during historic service The myth came to the public's attention when a Disney wildlife film in the 1950s mocked up the lemming migration to make it look like the animals had committed suicide. They often die of exhaustion or drown as a result. Sometimes, particularly in Scandinavia, they reach clifftops overlooking an ocean and, driven by the urge to cross a body of water, throw themselves off in order to swim to the other side. Instead, evolutionary pressures cause them to feel the urge to change habitat at which point they migrate in huge droves. Most scientists generally believe that animals are incapable of committing suicide.Įven lemmings, which by popular myth throw themselves off cliffs during mating season, do not take their own lives intentionally. There has been speculation that when this does happen it is because a tightly-grouped number have followed each other as they search for more grass. In each case, local mountain rescue services using a helicopter had to be called in to remove the bodies because of the danger to the local groundwater of pollution.Īccording to local reports, there had been violent thunderstorms in the area which may well have spooked the animals.Ĭows do occasionally fall to their deaths in these Alpine regions although it is rare for so many to fall in one particular place. In the space of just three days, 28 cows and bulls have mysteriously died after they plunged hundreds of metres to rocks below where they were killed instantly.
Often carrying large bells around their necks, most are dairy cows as the mix of vegetation and grasses at that high altitude are particularly good for milk and for making cheese.Ī similar incident of cows leaping or falling off a cliff in the Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen happened in 2009. Pictured above, a file photo of cows in Switzerland The couple who own the land said the cows may have been chased by a predator before falling or leaping off the cliff. The cows did, however, have to pass through a pasture occupied by four yaks before reaching the cliff. He said a predator on the land could have been a dog off the leash or a wolf. Terrettaz said that that the behavior was unusual, as cows 'have a tendency to disperse' when faced with danger instead of following one another 'like sheep'. They fell into the void, as though they were forced into it,' Norbert Terrettaz, president of an farming insurance company in the region, told La Nouvelliste. 'The cows broke through several lines around the pasture before finding themselves on the ridge.
The cows belonged to several different owners, but were all grazing together on a pasture owned by a local couple. A herd of 13 Herens cows broke through their pen in a pasture before running toward a cliff and either falling or throwing themselves off of the 50metre drop near Levron in Valais on Wednesday.
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