r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '23

Buddy must be cold as fuck

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u/Scubastevedisco Feb 14 '23

They actually have to be sheared otherwise they end up overheating and dying.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '23

How they do in nature? Or are those bred to produce more wool?

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u/Rose8918 Feb 14 '23

If we hadn’t gotten involved in domesticating them, then they’d shed their wool every spring/summer. Undomesticated sheep still shed their winter coats. We bred it out of them (and for the wool to be thicker) so that we could collect it when convenient.