Prickles the Tasmanian sheep may just be the world’s first practitioner of physical distancing. Following the 2013 brushfires in the village of Dunalley, Prickles went on an adventure that lasted seven years.
While stories of her journey are unclear, one thing is for sure: it didn’t involve any shearing. The sheep returned to her home in Tasmania with seven years’ worth of unshorn fleece.
Compared to her sheep siblings in an April 13 photo shared by MyCause, an Australian fundraising and crowdfunding platform, she looks a bit unkempt, her fleece full of secrets. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] “She is absolutely round,” farmer Alice Gray, Prickles’ owner, told the Australian Broadcasting