The son of a rancher in Queensland, Australia, Derek Shirley, was shocked when he came to survey the impact of a lightning storm. His six cows, including two who were children, had become a carcass beside the wire fence. Judging from their rigid legs in the air, it seems that the six cows had been dead long enough to stand up and swell, before finally rolling over. Shirley and the experts suspect that the sixth cow killer was the last night's lightning strike. The reason, the death of animals in mass due to lightning is not new, as in August 2016 when lightning strikes in Norway killed 323 deer in an instant.
"It's not strange to see cattle or other animals like deer die from being electrocuted," said lightning security expert from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration John Jensenius.
The six cows allegedly died from the flow of electricity through the wire fence. In the US National Weather Service website, it is explained that although the metal itself does not draw lightning, but the metal is conductive enough to deliver it. "Whether inside or outside, everyone who touches everything with wires, pipes, or metal surfaces that come out is at risk of being electrocuted," the site said. However, Jensesius also explained that in most cases, animals do not die from being struck by lightning directly, but because of the lightning flow in the soil. When grabbing a tree, for example, the energy from lightning can radiate through the ground, passing through one deer leg and down through the other. Travel through this body can stop the work of the heart and make animals die standing
the death of six cows in Australia, Jenesius says that we must always remember the ferocity of lightning and avoid all things conductive during a lightning storm.