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- From: dan@msen.com (Dan Sugalski)
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- Subject: Re: Meaning of tabby cats
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 19:37:10 GMT
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- Sandra Loosemore (loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu) wrote:
- : If you look closely at the fur of a tabby cat, the individual hairs
- : have bands of color on them. Typically they are dark near the root
- : and are light-colored near the tip, or have a light-colored band in
- : the middle. The tabby gene controls whether the hairs are have this
- : banding or are solid.
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- : Tortoise-shell refers to color, namely having patches of both red
- : and black (or brown) fur.
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- : Mackerel tabby refers to the larger patterns of mottling on the fur
- : forming narrow stripes. There is also a classic tabby pattern with
- : wide stripes, a spotted tabby pattern, and at least one breed of
- : cats where the tabby pattern doesn't have any dark mottling at all.
-
- : -Sandra
-
- Abyssinian coloring is also a variation on the tabby gene. They have the
- banded or agouti fur, but shouldn't have stripes.
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- Karen
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