Image Description: This cute and cuddly black lamb is lying down on the ground. Luckily for him, his short black fleece coat would not show the dirt as well as his white brothers and sisters. White fleece is the dominant gene and not a case of albinism, and most white sheep do not carry the recessive black gene, so a black lamb is usually quite rare; there is a 25% chance of it occurring if both parents are carriers of the recessive black gene. Black wool was never very popular, mainly because it can never be dyed, but also because during the 18th and 19th centuries, black wool carried a superstition that associated with the devil. Notably, the idea of a black sheep is also an idiom in the English language that refers to an odd or peculiar member of the family.

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