Burmese Cats
Burmese are slim, athletic cats with a short, silky coat and golden eyes. There are many colours including; brown, blue, lilac, chocolate, cream, red, lilac-cream (also called lilac torti), blue torti, chocolate torti and brown torti. Burmese are ... [... more]
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Burmese pork curry
Combine pork with tumeric and salt in a large bowl. Set aside to marinade 30 minutes while you prepare remaining ingredients. Heat oils in a large heavy-based saucepan, cook onion until softened. Add garlic, ginger, chilli and shrimp paste and ... [... more]
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Bindi, Jungle Girl: Burmese pythons
Bindi tells you all about her upcoming birthday party and one of her favourite snakes at Australia Zoo - the Burmese python. No, Jonah, Burmese pythons aren't poisonous. They have no venom. They coil themselves around their prey and constrict ... [... more]
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Feeding & hunting
A hybrid of the Siamese and Burmese, Tonkinese are slim, sleek, graceful cats, usually rounder-faced than Siamese, but with the darker markings, or 'points', on the face, paws, and tail and a richer body colour. Colours correspond with those seen ... [... more]
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Burmilla Cats
Not one of the most commonly bred cats. Waiting lists may apply. Burmillas are elegant looking cats with a distinctly 'foreign' appearance, reminiscent of Burmese and Chinchillas. It is in fact these two breeds that started the Burmilla. It is a ... [... more]
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Australian Mist Cat
Its general shape is like that of a well-balanced domestic cat. The coat is short but dense and soft like that of a Burmese. The pattern is made up of darker spots on a lighter, 'misted' ground. The colour of the spots determines the colour of ... [... more]
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Birman Cats
According to Buddhist legend the Birman breed was created by a Burmese goddess. The legend tells of a colony of white cats living in a Burmese temple dedicated to a goddess. After a temple priest was murdered, one of the white cats faced an ... [... more]
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Feeding and health
Once called the Golden Siamese, the Tonkinese is in fact a hybrid of Burmese and Siamese breeds. Initially developed in the United States in the 1930s, the blend of these two breeds resulted in a type which displayed obvious, but more refined ... [... more]
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Australian Mist Cats
As breeding has progressed, the marbled type has appeared. Rather than spotting, marble-like swirls are apparent through the coat. The coat is short but dense and soft like that of a Burmese. Coat patterns are made up of darker spots on a ... [... more]
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Anne Teich
In 1978, at the age of 80, the Burmese forest monk Taungpulu Sayadaw left his native country for the first time and came to California, where he taught and established the West's first Burmese Buddhist temple and monastery. Revered as a saint in ... [... more]
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