what's the word for a leg elbow?
what's the word for a leg elbow?
I cut the inner part of my leg elbow while shaving and forgot the name
unrelated cat photo
also here's my cat being cute
idk just wanted to share her getting a suntan 🥰
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Those orange and brown stripes remind me this Minecraft cat. Such a beautiful color.
Nope, that's an orange/red tabby while op's is a calico, which is also present in Minecraft. Fun fact: except in rare exceptions all red tabbies are males and all calicos are female.
Note: these aren't breeds, but names for the coat coloring.
Your fun fact is only partially correct. Calicos and torties are almost always female because the black/brown/grey(dilute) and red/orange colors are both located on the X chromosome, so in order to have both colors, they have to have 2 X chromosomes. Male calicos & torties have some genetic abnormality such as XXY or are a chimera. Red/orange females are much less common than red/orange males, but not all that rare, because they have 2 X chromosomes and therefore have to have 2 copies of the red/orange gene to be solid red/orange, while males only have 1 X chromosome, so they only need 1 copy of the red/orange gene to be red/orange.
Another fun fact: All domestic cats with red coats are tabbies. Through selective breeding, some reds exist with a coat that appears solid, but they're still tabbies with the agouti gene, just very low contrasting in the striping.
You are right, it was an oversimplification, 25% is hardly a 'rare exception'.
In my defense I have to say that it was late, I was already in bed, and very sleepy. And I knew that, this being lemmy, some other nerd would come with a more thorough explanation.
All good! I do a lot of lurking, so you gave me the perfect set up to actually participate! I do a lot of kitten fostering, so I spent A LOT of time reading up on their genetics to try and make sense of things and guess what the father(s) look(s) like. New fun fact: kittens from a single litter don't all necessarily share the same father.
So, is this the right one? At least the colors match, but it doesn’t have any stripes.
That's the one.
yep! that pic doesn't really show off her coat very well
this pic is from when I fell asleep on the couch and came up to bed and she was all snuggled up like a shrimp and was so snoozy she didn't wake up till after I layed down
