How have sheep existed in the wild without someone to shear them?

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I saw a post about a sheep that escaped owners/shearing for years and its wool was out of control. Have sheep ever existed in the wild without someone to shear them?

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We bred sheep to be like this. Wool was a highly valuable resource; large parts of both the english agricultural revolution and then the industrial revolution were centered on wool production.

The ancestoral sheep still exists; it’s notably goat like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouflon

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