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To: Diana in Wisconsin

More here...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/128388439/shrekapo-the-elusive-merino-186kg-lighter-after-being-shorn-for-the-first-time

Modern sheep must be bred for big, fast fleece?

Seems to me lugging that around in the wild would put the poor critters at an evolutionary disadvantage...

Unless a fleece that thick is a sheepy version of Kevlar. The predators just bounce off...?

Come to think of it, Shrekapo did okay for six years, didn’t he...

Handsome animal!

Wonder what’s been done with the wool...


13 posted on 04/28/2022 7:22:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: mewzilla

Ah, Shrek was on the lam (ha ha) for six years...


15 posted on 04/28/2022 7:27:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: mewzilla
Wonder what’s been done with the wool...

It's all in the cards now.

(The ~5 who get this will laugh. Thus the word obscure)

33 posted on 04/28/2022 8:13:21 AM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: mewzilla
Seems to me lugging that around in the wild would put the poor critters at an evolutionary disadvantage...

Many domesticated animals would have a hard time surviving without people to care for them. Imagine a Lhasa Also in the wild. Or a domesticated turkey.

42 posted on 04/28/2022 8:32:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: mewzilla

18.6 kg is 41 lbs of wool. Wow! It’s as if a diminutive mother had to carry a 5-year-old boy around all the time.


56 posted on 04/28/2022 5:41:01 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: mewzilla

…….yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full.
One for the master
One for the dame, and
One for the little boy who lived in the lane.


80 posted on 04/30/2022 3:15:16 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Life is what you make it.)
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