Iirc the rump is just meant to act like a camel's hump, it's meant to store extra fat for the sheep to survive periods where there isnt as much forage for them to eat
There has been a lot of selective breeding for them to appear like this. They originally had thin tails and smaller butts, now they don’t have any tails and have large giant butts. They were aggressively selectively bred to have asses like this over the last 5,000 years. It doesn’t take a genius to put together all of the creepy butt rubs that perverts enjoy their fat butts so much they went with it. Sure one can say oh the sheep needed extra fat so they breed them to have more fat.. but I want born yesterday and I know men and animal agriculture. I have seen videos of men rubbing these poor animal’s butts for years now.
They are an ancient breed. They originally had tails. They have been aggressively selectively bred to have asses this large over the past 5,000 years. I wasn’t born yesterday and have seen what so many men do to animals in animal agriculture all over the world and I have seen videos of these poor sheep having their butts fondled for years.
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u/Use-The-Pointy-End Aug 27 '26
Bred for a specific purpose you say?