The New Zealand White is a large white pink eyed muscular rabbit that is popular as a laboratory rabbit. It was originally bred in the USA for fur and meat.
It was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who traveled the unexplored world who "discovered" New Zealand. He constructed crude maps/drawings of the islands (North, South and Stewart) before returning to...
Abel Tasman named the land Staten Landt, as it was thought to be connected to South America. Cook's voyages and surveying corrected that, and subsequently it was shown on Dutch maps as Nova Zeeland...