Below these particulars was a series of alpha-beta-gammas connected by arrows and crosses which denoted the lineage of the breed.

Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.

Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

The modern beef breed was developed in the 1950s by Professor Hanset, working at an artificial insemination centre in Liege province.

The breed's characteristic gene mutation was maintained through linebreeding to the point where the condition was a fixed property in the Belgian Blue breed.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

Naturalist John Richardson, who studied the breed in the 1820s, before it was diluted by crossings with other breeds, could detect no decided difference in form between the breed and coyotes, and surmised it was a domesticated version of the wild animal.

As early as 490 BC a breed of large horses was bred in the Nisaean plain in Media to carry men with increasing amounts of armour ( Herodotus 7, 40 & 9, 20 ).

The use of same word castas, and a method of stratifying people based on " breed, race, caste " was common in colonial Spain, throughout South America and Central America, within the last 500 years.

The term caste was applied to Indian society in the 17th century, via Portuguese casta " breed, race, caste ".

The European breed used in the formation of Canchim cattle was Charolais.

The main Zebu breed which contributed to the formation to the Canchim was the Indubrazil, although Guzerá and Nelore cattle where also used.

Preference was given to the Indubrasil breed, due to the ease of obtaining large herds at reasonable prices, which would have been difficult with Gir, Nelore or Guzerá.

Thus was born a new type of beef cattle for Central Brazil, with the name CANCHIM, derived from the name of a tree very common in the region where the breed was developed.

Cowboy Bebop was that rare breed of science-fiction: " accessible ".

Dachshunds have been kept by royal courts all over Europe, including that of Queen Victoria, who was particularly enamored of the breed.

Due to the association of the breed with Germany, the dachshund was chosen to be the first official mascot for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, with the name Waldi.

In years when there was a shortage of food, the auk did not breed.

In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch " one of the few English novels written for grown-up people ".

During the 19th century a breed of pig called Tamworth Pig was initially bred here using some imported Irish stock.

Although the application was initially rejected, a new standard was created for the PJRTCGB based on the standard of the SEJRTC, and under that standard the breed was recognised by the Kennel Club in 1990 as the Parson Jack Russell terrier.

The breeder or breeders who initially establish a breed, do so by selecting individual animals from within the groups gene pool that they see as having the necessary qualities needed to enhance the breed model they are aiming for.

They were initially called " Italians ", but by 1865 the breed was known as " Leghorn ", the traditional anglicisation of " Livorno ".

It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, an intelligent breed of newts, who are initially enslaved and exploited.

The Kennel Club initially recognised them as a subset of the existing English Bulldog breed rather than an entirely new breed.

Despite opposition from Miniature Bulldog ( the new breed name for the Toy Bulldog ) and Bulldog breeders, in 1905, the Kennel Club changed its policy on the breed and recognised them separate from the English variety, initially as the Bouledogue Francais, then later in 1912 the name changed to French Bulldog.

The Indian rhinoceros was initially difficult to breed in captivity.

The Pixie-bob was classified by TICA initially as a " Native New Breed ", defined as " A new breed which has been identified through selection of phenotypically similar individuals from a naturally occurring population indigenous to a particular geographic region " but it is now classified as a " Newer Natural / Regional Breed " also known as NNRB.

Karabakh numbers were initially hurt in 1826 during the Russo-Iranian war, but the breed remained intact.

In fact these cats were initially created by hybridizing Siamese with American Shorthairs, the same hybridization that created the Oriental breed of cats.

It was thought to breed in Labrador, and it wintered from Nova Scotia to as far south as Chesapeake Bay.

The breed is thought to be the type of dog mentioned in The Bible.

While the Greyhound is credited as being the fastest dog breed up to distances of around, both the Saluki and Whippet breeds are thought to be faster over longer distances.

The blue variant of this breed was so common that many thought it was its own breed called the British Blue.

The breed is thought to have acquired its name by association with the area known as Pomerania which is located in northern Poland and Germany along the Baltic Sea.

Where species, like the Buff-throated Sunbird, breed in the dry season, it is thought to be associated with the flowering of favoured food plants.

Described as pleasant natured and obedient, the breed is thought to descend from dogs left in the Balkan region by the Phoenicians in ancient times.

However it is thought that the Beagle, Old English Bulldog, English Toy Terrier, Pointer and even Dalmatian were all used in the creation and stabilisation of the breed.

We would go on the coast of Spain ; and therefore our ground was first, to look to that principal ; and if we found they did but linger on their own coast, or that they were put into the Isles of Bayona or the Groyne, then we thought in all men's judgments that be of experience here, it had been most fit to have sought some good way, and the surest we could devise, by the good protection of God, to have defeated them ... And if her Majesty do think that she is able to detract time with the King of Spain, she is greatly deceived ; which may breed her great peril.

The docile and floppy nature of the Ragdoll is a characteristic thought to be passed down from the Persian and Birman breed.

A character in Sir Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering has lent the name to the breed, with " Dandie Dinmont " thought to be based on James Davidson, who is credited as being the " father " of the modern breed.

This is an ancient breed, thought to be directly descended from dogs brought to Greenland by the first Inuit settlers.

The small Bulldog type gradually became thought of as a breed, and received a name, the Bouledogue Francais.

* The Essex Pig Society is building up the numbers of the Essex Pig, formerly thought to be an extinct breed of the domestic pig.

Although it is commonly ( and mistakenly ) thought that this was the first horse of the breed, by the 1760s, all other male lines of the breed had died out, resulting in a genetic bottleneck.

The breed was also thought to have been bred to chase foxes into their underground burrows ; the dogs ' short, strong, usually docked tails were used as handles by the hunter to pull them back out.

The Suckermouthed catfish has not been reported to spawn and breed in aquarium ; it is thought to spawn in mud burrows dug into the side of riverbanks in its natural habitat.

The interaction of ideas of French revolution with the Ottoman Millet system created a breed of thought ( a new form of personal identification ) which turned the concept of nationalism synonymous with religion under the Ottoman flag.

There are occasional records from Monterey Bay, but the water there is too cold for the California spiny lobster to breed, and it is thought that any adult found in Central California arrived as a larva during El Niño years.

As ASD is found in non-silver representatives of the breed, it is thought to be physically close to the silver gene and to have come from a silver dapple, ASD-affected foundation ancestor, thus is an example of the Founder effect.

Furioso, who is thought to be the most influential Thoroughbred in warmblood breeding, Rantzau and Ultimate were also incredibly important in the Selle Français breed.