Please explain sheep and any other animal really, that can become “cast” – isn’t falling down just a normal part of life? How is it that they can’t get back up themselves and will die from what I think of as a basic fact of life?
In: Biology
You gotta remember, domesticated sheep aren’t the same as natural sheep. They are tended to by humans, and humans intentionally bred them for maximum fleece size over centuries. Humans threw Darwinism away and played it ourselves with out own rules. Rather than nature selecting for survival, we selected for producing wool.
Hell, falling over killing a sheep? There are stories about sheep escaping and expected to die because, with their massive fleece and not shedding it properly, they should die from overheating or just be an easy target for predators. And then they’re found and we’re surprised they’re still alive. And then someone shears them and the fleece is twice as big as the animal under it.
They is what we’ve done to sheep. And it’s not the only animal we’ve, uhh, “altered” in a similar way.
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