Didn't humans breed them to basically be dependent on having humans cut their wool? I mean, I know that wasn't WHY they bred them that way, but isn't that what's happened?
Pretty sure some sheep are bred for their wool. You've got wool sheep, milk ship, meat sheep, agriculture is super specialized. I guess. Source: no clue, just wouldn't surprise me.
It just seems unlikely that nature would let a creature like this exist on it's own.
Like, it's wool is too thick for it to survive properly (or even reproduce I would think), but if it was living like this "for years," it apparently had no way of removing the wool on it's own, either. So seems like it would either be a genetic mutation, something it needed help from other sheep to accomplish, or humans fucking around with things that probably ought not be fucked with to this degree.
It probably never got taught by its mother how to deal with it like some animals whose teeth always grow have to constantly chew on stuff to keep it sharp and if they don't it grows into them and kills them. I'd assume this would be like that just something that's taught by its mother during young age like with cats meowing at humans because their mothers never taught them to stop.
Like, it's wool is too thick for it to survive properly (or even reproduce I would think), but if it was living like this "for years," it apparently had no way of removing the wool on it's own, either. So seems like it would either be a genetic mutation, something it needed help from other sheep to accomplish, or humans fucking around with things that probably ought not be fucked with to this degree.