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- Africanized bee [r]: Hybrids of the African honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, with various European honey bees. [e]
- Agricultural show [r]: A public event showcasing the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with the occupations of agriculture and animal husbandry. [e]
- Australian National Kennel Council [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cat breed [r]: Infrasubspecific rank for the classification of domestic cats. [e]
- Cat [r]: A feline, particularly the domesticated feline, Felis catus, a small carnivorous mammal. [e]
- Coat (animal) [r]: The pelage of a show animal or a garment design to protect an animal from harsh weather. [e]
- Dog breeding [r]: The vocation of mating carefully selected specimens of the same dog breed in order to reproduce specific, consistently replicable qualities and characteristics. [e]
- Dog breed [r]: A selectively-bred dog group with dependably similar and predictable characteristics. [e]
- Dog grooming [r]: the act of cleaning a dog's coat and external organs both for the sake of appearance and for the animal's health and hygiene. [e]
- Dog [r]: Domesticated animal often kept as a pet or as a working animal. [e]
- Domestication [r]: The process of habituating wild animals or plants to live in association with humans, thereby providing us with food, livestock and pets. [e]
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
- Fox Terrier [r]: Small to medium-sized hunting terrier developed to rout fox and vermin. [e]
- Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- Horse [r]: Strong, intelligent equine in domestication for thousands of years and also found in the wild in feral populations. [e]
- Landrace [r]: A grouping of animals or plants with similar characteristics not yet formalised into a consistently replicable breed or cultivated variety. [e]
- Maine Coon [r]: The oldest American breed of long-haired domestic cat. [e]
- Maize [r]: Cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the world, and one of the most widely grown crops in the Americas. [e]
- Maple [r]: Deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer of the North Temperate Zone, having opposite, usually palmate leaves and long-winged fruits borne in pairs. [e]
- Miniature Fox Terrier [r]: A small Australian vermin-routing terrier, developed from 19th Century Fox Terriers and Fox Terrier types. [e]
- Moose (dog actor) [r]: Iconic Jack Russell Terrier (1990 - 2006) best known for portraying "Eddie" on the television series Frasier. [e]
- Purebred [r]: Cultivated varieties or cultivars of an animal species, achieved through the process of selective breeding of individuals of unmixed lineage over many generations. [e]
- Sighthound [r]: A classification of dog breeds with exceptional visual ability, sensitive to sight and motion and originally more reliant on these senses for hunting than on smell or sound. [e]
- Terrier [r]: A member or descendant of any of several dog breeds or dog landraces originally developed for hunting or vermin routing. [e]
- The Origin of Species [r]: 1859 book by Charles Darwin expounding the theory of evolution through natural selection [e]
- True breeding [r]: An organism that produces offspring with the same traits. The alleles for most genes are homozygous. [e]
- Working dog [r]: A diverse group of domestic dogs used to perform specific tasks to assist humans in their work. [e]
