stampede
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- Cattle stampedes
- Human stampedes and crushes <span class="anchor" id=""Human stampedes" and crushes"></span> <span class="anchor" id="human stampede"></span>
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A stampede () is a situation in which a group of large animals start suddenly running in the same direction, mainly because they are excited or frightened. Although the term is most often applied to animals, there are cases of humans stampeding from danger too.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stampede” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.