On October 24, 2026, a ram made an extraordinary entrance into an office building in Christchurch, New Zealand. It did not use the front door.
Just before 10 a.m. on Saturday, the animal charged through a ground-floor glass window. Once inside, it damaged tables in meeting rooms, smashed through an internal glass partition and left a considerable mess behind.
Police believed the ram had been on the run for about three days. Officers and animal control staff responded to the building, and the animal was taken into the care of Christchurch City Council.
But the strangest part of the story was the possible explanation offered by the organisation whose office had been damaged.
What if the ram had seen its own reflection in the glass and charged at what it thought was another sheep?
If that theory is correct, the animal effectively picked a fight with itself, broke a window and ended up wrecking somebody else’s office.
That raises an oddly specific question: Do sheep really attack their own reflections? Surprisingly, there is scientific research that helps us examine the possibility.