why haven’t sheep evolved to “right” themselves if they fall on their backs?

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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?

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The sheep you get in the field today are engineered by thousands of years of selective breeding to make lots of wool. They aren’t the wild version. So they require humans to take care of them. They would not survive in the wild.

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