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LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: January 30, 2023

Captain James Cook delivered the first sheep to New Zealand in 1773, and they just kept coming. Thousands of sheep were imported to New Zealand in the 1800s. Add that total to the natural population growth from adult sheep making baby sheep and it wasn’t long before sheep outnumbered people in New Zealand. The country’s sheep-to-human ratio hit an all-time high in 1982 with 22 sheep for every person. As of the most recent count, New Zealand’s sheep population outnumbers its human population by slightly less than 6 to 1.