A Michael Broad Blog
Striped tabby cats are also called mackerel tabbies in reference to the skin of the fish by the same name. This is the ancient type of tabby pattern close to the one we see in the ancestral wild cat species. The word ‘tabby’ is thought to be derived from ‘Atabi’, type of silk manufactured …
The answer to this question is straightforward and has been answered before. It needs to be re-addressed because people still ask the question. The picture below answers it. It has been decided by experts that almost 10,000 years ago a North African wildcat decided to befriend a farmer, perhaps in an area which we …
I believe that the proper terminology is “brindled cat” but people search for, “what is a brindle cat?”. A brindle cat is a tabby cat. Although the word “brindled” is used as a prefix to describe certain types of domestic cat coat such as the tortoiseshell. So for example, Sarah Hartwell, on her website …
A few hundred mummified Egyptian cats exist in museums and analysis of some of the remains reveals that they are mackerel tabby cats like the North African wildcat. I suppose that result might be expected. However, these mummified remains were of cats that existed 2000 years after the first domestication of the North African …
First we need to just restate what is in fact not stated that often, that the wild cats have tabby coats. And the classic moggie tabby we see all time has the same gene that creates the tabby coat that is carried by the glamorous Bengal wild cat hybrid and the rare designer cat …
This is a really nice polydactyl tabby cat picture by Helmi Flick. Octavia is a beautiful polydactyl tabby cat. People call them polycats. And they have polyfeet! The polydactyl world throws up some nice terminology. For people new to polydactyl cats, it means cats with extra toes. Robinson’s Genetics calls it “polydactyly”. They say …
