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 🥰

    • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
      2·
      10 days ago

      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.

      • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        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.

        • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
          2·
          9 days ago

          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.

          • QualifiedKitten@discuss.onlineEnglish
            2·
            9 days ago

            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.

      • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        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