Wild sheep shed their coats every year, but humans have bred the animals to keep growing in order to increase wool production. merino wool is common in high-end clothing. hilariously humongous sheep, in other words, are the result of people tinkering with animal evolution.. The wild ancestors of today's domestic sheep breeds had long, coarse hair and a short, downy undercoat, which under domestication gradually became wool, while the long hair disappeared. wild sheep, such as the mouflon, still do not have wooly coats.. Well, wild sheep naturally shed their wool! this trait has been bred out of almost every domesticated sheep because individual animals lose their wool at different times. rooing a sheep also takes more time then shearing. as sheep flocks grew people wanted to quickly shear all their sheep at once and the rooing gene was selected against which.
The excess wool growth in sheep bred for their wool is the result of selective breeding for wool production. the wild ancestors of domestic sheep, mouflon, don't have much wool. today there are domestic sheep breeds that don't have any wool.. Hi, the more ancient species of sheep like the shetland, soay etc do shed their fleeces naturally and humans would just go around picking up the wool but once man started to selectively breed sheep for their fleeces they lost the ability to shed naturally and had to be shorn.. Wild sheep are largely variations of brown hues, and variation within species is extremely limited. colors of domestic sheep range from pure white to dark chocolate brown, and even spotted or piebald. selection for easily dyeable white fleeces began early in sheep domestication, and as white wool is a dominant trait it spread.
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