A sweet Orange Cat with only one eye watches her mama make a pasta dinner for herself, but then she gets her own carefully ...

Let’s be real, reading books and graphic novels as an animal lover can be challenging. While there’s that flash of excitement ...

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Nine thousand years ago, humans began domesticating cats. Nine hundred years ago, before the advent of intentional cat breeding, a genetic mutation gave rise to the first orange cat. Days ...

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Unlike any other “ginger” mammals, orange cats’ coloration owes to a sex-linked gene, which is why 80% of orange felines are fellas.

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Spay-and-neuter clinics also contributed tissue after surgically sterilizing feral cats. The scientists sequenced the genomes from 200 out of 3,000 collected samples of orange cat DNA with non ...

Male cats, on the other hand, only have one X chromosome, and are therefore much more likely to evenly express that mutation. Whether orange or not, all fur pigmentation genes are X-linked.