Orange cats have a unique genetic mutation that gives them their special coats — and this mutation also explains why so many of them are male, two new studies find. Many animals have orange hair ...

or a patchwork of orange, black and white (calico). Over the years, scientists had incrementally closed in on the key mutation’s general location on the cat genome. “The candidate region had ...

Orange cats have a unique genetic mutation that gives them their special coats — and this mutation also explains why so many of them are male, two new studies find. Many animals have orange hair ...

The answers were then utilized to rate each cat according to an aggression scale. The findings of the study showed that females with orange, black-and-white, and gray-and-white color, or calicos ...

with five cat colors–orange, tri-colored (tortoiseshells and calico cats), white, black and bi-colored (white and anything else). Some trends appeared in the data. Orange kitties were perceived ...

Black cats were seen as more antisocial than other types of cats, along with their white and three-tone brethren. Overall, orange cats were perceived as the friendliest. Black cats in general had ...

Conversely, nearly all calico cats, who have a mixture of orange, black and white fur, are female, as they received one X chromosome with orange fur genes and one with black fur genes. Male calico ...

horses and mice are caused by cells dividing too slowly in the womb Cats with black and white patches have their distinctive colouring determined in the womb, according to new research Credit ...