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The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) or coney is a species of rabbit native to the Iberian Peninsula and southwestern France. It has been introduced to hundreds of locations around the world. Wild and domesticated European rabbits around the world can vary widely in size, shape, and colour. The average adult European rabbit is smaller than the European hare, though size and weight vary with habitat and diet. European rabbits prefer grassland habitats and are herbivorous, mainly feeding on grasses and leaves, though they may supplement their diet with berries, tree bark, and field crops such as maize. They are prey to a variety of predators, including birds of prey, weasels, cats, and…

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Cuniculture is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising domestic rabbits as livestock for their meat, fur, or wool. Cuniculture is also employed by rabbit fanciers and hobbyists in the development and betterment of rabbit breeds and the exhibition of those efforts. Scientists practice cuniculture in the use and management of rabbits as model organisms in research. Cuniculture has been practiced all over the world since at least the 5th century.

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The domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus) is the domesticated form and subspecies of the European rabbit. There are hundreds of rabbit breeds originating from all over the world. Rabbits were first domesticated and used for food and fur by the Romans. Rabbits may be housed inside, but the idea of the domestic rabbit as a house companion, a so-called house rabbit (similar to a house cat), was only strongly promoted starting with publications in the 1980s. Rabbits can be trained to use a litter box and taught to come when called, but require exercise and can damage a house or injure themselves if it has not been suitably prepared, based on their innate need to chew. Accidental in…

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Animals had a variety of roles and functions in ancient Greece and Rome. Fish and birds were served as food. Species such as donkeys and horses served as work animals. The military used elephants. It was common to keep animals such as parrots, cats, or dogs as pets. Many animals held important places in the Graeco-Roman religion or culture. For example, owls symbolized wisdom and were associated with Athena. Humans would form close relationships with their animals in antiquity. Philosophers often debated about the nature of animals and humans. Many believed that the fundamental difference was that humans were capable of reason while animals were not. Philosophers such as Porphyry advocated…

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Money Use Among The Peasantry Of Ptolemaic And Roman Egypt. Abstract Of Roman rule. One consequence of the major administrative reorganization set in train by Augustus and continued by his successors, enhancing the mttropolcis as centres of wealth and I Icllenic culture, volume, since I am no numismatist, nor even strictly an economic historian; moreover, the primary focus of this paper, Roman Egypt, is not normally regarded as part of the Ancient Greek \vorld. But, as a social historian who has become intcrc;,t<..:d in exploring what impact money actually had on the lives of the people J study, I hope to justify the relevance of taking Ptolemaic and Roman Eb’YPt over la longue durfe as a c…

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Rabbits, or bunnies, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas). They are familiar throughout the world as a small herbivore, a prey animal, a domesticated form of livestock, and a pet, having a widespread effect on ecologies and cultures. The most widespread rabbit genera are Oryctolagus and Sylvilagus. The former, Oryctolagus, includes the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, which is the ancestor of the hundreds of breeds of domestic rabbit and has been introduced on every continent except Antarctica. The latter, Sylvilagus, includes over 13 wild rabbit species, among them the cottontails and…

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Abstracts presented during the "8th World Rabbit Science Congress". digestive Physiology, Management and Economics, Wool and Fur, Meat Quality and Processing and FAO Rabbit Science and Production in developing countries sections. Puebla, México

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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease: The devastating impact of a highly contagious virus on rabbit populations.. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD) is a highly contagious viral infection in rabbits that can occur in acute, subacute, chronic, or peracute forms and is not fatal. It is caused by RHD virus (RHDV), a member of the genus Lagovirus in the family Caliciviridae , with variants including RHDV1, RHDV1a, and RHDV2. First identified in 1984 in domestic rabbits ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) in China, RHD has since been reported in Asia, Europe, Africa, Central America, and North America. Both innate and adaptive immune responses contribute to host defense, although rapid disease progression can limit a…

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Clinical and pathological investigation of Maedi-visna outbreak in a farm from Bulgaria.. Background In the autumn of 2024, an outbreak of Maedi-visna (MV) was identified in Bulgaria in the village of Sigmen, Burgas district. The disease is a slowly progressive, persistent, usually subclinical viral infection in sheep, distributed worldwide. Difficulties in early diagnosis are the long period between infection and the dynamics of the antibody titer (seroconversion), the emission of an infectious onset without clinical signs, the lack of vaccines, as well as some ongoing misunderstandings in the epidemiology and the transmission mechanisms, which determine the complex nature of the disease.…

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Human and Animal Fascioliasis: Origins and Worldwide Evolving Scenario.. Fascioliasis is a plant- and waterborne zoonotic parasitic disease caused by two trematode species: (i) Fasciola hepatica in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania and (ii) F. gigantica , which is restricted to Africa and Asia. Fasciolid liver flukes infect mainly herbivores as ruminants, equids, and camelids but also omnivore mammals as humans and swine and are transmitted by freshwater Lymnaeidae snail vectors. Two phases may be distinguished in fasciolid evolution. The long predomestication period includes the F. gigantica origin in east-southern Africa around the mid-Miocene, the F. hepatica origin in the…