Bean watches "Shaun the Sheep." A LOT of sheep. She is quite obsessed with sheep (and cows --- moooo! --- for that matter).
The sheep cartoon got me thinking: Do overweight sheep make more wool that their healthy-weighted peers?
Side A says that an overweight sheep would create more surface area and hence, more area for wool in which to grow.
Side B said that overweight sheep are set with a genetically predetermined number of hair (wool) follicles. When said sheep packs on the pounds, the skin stretches and more widely distributes the set amount of wool.
That said, if side B is correct, are fat sheep then less warm that their svelte counterparts? They have more surface area to warm, but less wool per square inch.
Oh, the things I think about. I probably could have cured cancer by now.
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