Animals
Animal landraces occur in many species of domestic animals. A landrace does not imply so much a breed as a type of animal, though even "type" is not always synonymous. Often, from within a landrace a small number of animals have been carefully selected to found a formal pedigree breed, sometimes of the same name as the landrace. They may even have the capitalized word "Landrace" in their breed names. While they are standardised breeds derived from landraces, they are not entirely representative of the landraces from which they derive, and do not themselves constitute landraces. When people select animals to create a highly consistent purebred breed, they most often select for a consistent appearance, rather than behavior or adaptability to a given environment (indeed, "wild" behavior is usually intentionally bred out). When this happens, defining characteristics of the underlying actual landrace may be rapidly lost in the derived breed.
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