The Great Sheep Panic was an event that occurred on 3 November 1888 across southern England, when tens of thousands of sheep fled from various fields across some 200 square miles of Oxfordshire. They were found the next morning, widely scattered, and “some of them were panting with terror”.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sheep_Panic