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Oriental Longhairs have the same wedge-shaped heads as modern Siamese cats. Oriental Longhairs feature a long, tubular, Oriental-style body with a longer silky coat.The range of possible coat colours includes everything from self-coloured (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, caramel, fawn, red, cream and apricot), tortoiseshell, smoke (silver undercoat), shaded or tipped, tabby or white.
It was a mix of a Angora rabbit and a Baladi Black rabbit. The "Aurora" part of the name comes from "Angora", and the "Negro" comes from its black fur. Its primary use is for meat, but is also a common domestic pet. It has been brought to other places such as the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Greece. [12] Its primary diet is hay. [13]
Called simply the Turkish cat at this point, [7] the name was changed in 1979 in the UK (1985 in the US) to Turkish Van [2] [8] to better distance the breed from the Turkish Angora cat (originally called simply Angora, [1]: 35 an old spelling of Ankara). The Turkish Van began to be imported into America in the 1970s.
Angora wool, from an Angora rabbit; Angora rabbit, one of at least 11 breeds of rabbit; Angora goat, a breed of goat; Peruvian guinea pig, formerly known as the Angora; Angora ferret, a long-haired breed of ferret; Turkish Angora, a breed of cat originally known as just Angora; Oriental Longhair, a breed of cat formerly known as the British Angora
The Angora is said [by whom?] to have originated in Ankara (historically known as Angora), in present-day Turkey, and is known to have been brought to France in 1723.The Angora rabbit became a popular pet of the French royalty in the mid-18th century, and Angoras had spread to other parts of Europe by the end of that century. [1]
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]
In 1935, during the Great Depression, the BRC provided rabbits to unemployed people so that they could breed them. [9] In 1941, during the Second World War, the BRC worked with the Domestic Poultry and Rabbit Keepers' Council and the Ministry of Agriculture to encourage keeping rabbits as a food source. [10]
In the British Isles, these preserves were known as warrens or garths, and rabbits were known as coneys, to differentiate them from the similar hares. [ 2 ] : 342–343 The term warren was also used as a name for the location where hares, partridges and pheasants were kept, under the watch of a game keeper called a warrener.