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More thoughts on New Zealand. This is a country where sheep outnumber people by 10 to one. I started thinking about the relationship between sheep and humans. It occurred me that wild sheep would probably be impossible because they depend on being shorn every year. What would happen if their wool was not clipped? Would it keep growing? Well it appears that it would! Here is a picture of Shrek the sheep. Somehow he managed to outwit the musterers (yep, that is what people who gather sheep are called) for 6 years. By the time they found him he was enormous. He could barely walk. His wool covered his eyes. I would imagine that if the wool got wet he would have weighed so much that he might not be able to support himself. Also, even though you can't really see it too much in the picture, there was moss or algae growing on the wool so he was green, hence the "Shrek" name. He was finally found and sheared in 2004. There is no word on his current condition. Presumably he now gets his annual haircut.