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Different breeds of rabbit at an exhibition in the Netherlands, 1952. As of 2017, there were at least 305 breeds of the domestic rabbit in 70 countries around the world raised for in the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock for their value in meat, fur, wool, education, scientific research, entertainment and companionship in cuniculture. [1]
The species is known as klipdas in Afrikaans (etymology: rock + badger), [citation needed] while most people just call them "dassies" (the plural of dassie) or "rock rabbits" in South Africa. The Swahili names for them are pimbi , pelele , and wibari , though the latter two names are nowadays reserved for the tree hyraxes . [ 38 ]
South Africa: meat, hides, horns, pets 1b Bovidae: Blue (Connochaetes taurinus) [137] and black wildebeest (C. gnou) [138] date uncertain South Africa, Kenya: meat, leather, hides, horns, pets 1b Bovidae: Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus) including subspecies blesbok (D. p. phillipsi) [139] date uncertain South Africa: meat, hides, horns ...
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Counterintuitively, the giant rabbit breeds are rarely used for meat production, due to their extended growth rates (which lead to high feed costs) and their large bone size (which reduces the percentage of their weight that is usable meat). Dwarf breeds, too, are rarely used, due to the high production costs, slow growth, and low offspring rate.
In addition to their meat, domestic rabbits are used for their wool [47] and fur for clothing, [172] as well as their nitrogen-rich manure and their high-protein milk. [173] Production industries have developed domesticated rabbit breeds (such as the Angora rabbit) for the purpose of meeting these needs. [44]
The domestic rabbit subspecies of the European rabbit has been domesticated. The 64 extant species of Leporidae are contained within 11 genera . One genus, Lepus , contains 32 species that are collectively referred to as hares; the other eight genera are generally referred to as rabbits, with the majority – 19 species – in Sylvilagus , or ...
The main consumer of rabbit meat in the world was China, as of 2017, [113] though the production of rabbit meat in China has decreased by 33.8% from 2010 to 2020, and global production has decreased by 24.1% over the same period. [114] Rabbit fryers are the most common type of rabbit sold for meat, and make up more than 85% of the market share.