Sheep

Sheep descend from ancient mouflon that humans domesticated thousands of years ago. The feral sheep of the Fifth World descend from domesticated sheep, but due to their thick, curled coats, they prefer to live close to the poles and/or in relatively cooler mountainous regions.

#Human relations

People in the parts of the Fifth World where sheep still roam will occasionally hunt them for meat, leather, and wool. They rarely use wool for clothes, but will frequently make bedding and rugs from it.

Communities that live closely with sheep predominate around the poles, where it remains at least occasionally cool enough to sometimes warrant the wearing of wool. Given the long tradition of shepherding in Australia and New Zealand, and those places' disproportionate role in settling Antarctica, combined with Antarctica's grassy mountains and long winters, many communities specializing in relationship with sheep live there.

As Antarctica lay under glaciers until fairly recently, the newly-emerged continent grew little more than moss and grass during the early years of settlement. Raising sheep became an important way for early settlers to produce food. As time went on, settlers became nomads and the sheep began to go feral, no longer in a relationship of domination but the normal relationship of predator and prey.

But one can also commonly find such communities in Greenland, the North American arctic, parts of the Asian arctic, or anyplace hilly or mountainous.

#Specialization

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