But one of the weirdest examples of an animal bred for food is the fat-tailed sheep, still found across the South Asian steppes, and a standout in Mongolia.

Two and a half millennia ago, Herodotus was gobsmacked by these creatures, and their huge fat tails – some, he claimed, so large that “every shepherd knows enough woodwork to make little carts on to which they fasten the sheeps’ tails, one for the tail of every animal.”

说是尾巴大到要用小车来推！！！

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