Cat Marbled Pattern

These swirls are usually quite random and resemble a marble cake.

Cat marbled pattern.

The color marbling is random. Sometimes called a tiger cat mackerel tabbies have one solid dark stripe along their spine with more stripes branching off. Marbled bengals also come in all three snow variations the seal sepia the seal mink and the seal lynx point who also have deep blue eyes. This is when a cat has vertical stripes running from its spine to its belly.

As you can see he has contrasting pattern on his legs tummy around his neck and his mouth and chin is white. Mackerel tabby featured image credit. And it happens to be the most common of all the feline coat. The marbled pattern occurs nowhere else in nature.

People sometimes call the average domestic cat a tabby but tabby is not a cat breed it is actually the pattern of kitty s coat. The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. Patterns should be symmetrical on both sides of the body and the pattern should swirl and flow around the body like the colours in a glass marble. This pattern resembles the skeleton of a fish hence the name.

Distinct color patterns with one color predominating. The african wildcat felis lybica lybica the european wildcat felis silvestris silvestris and the asiatic wildcat felis lybica ornata all of which have similar coats both by pattern and coloration. The tabby pattern occurs naturally and is connected both to the coat of the domestic cat s direct ancestor and to those of their close relatives. His name is adore cats lightening.

This is the most common coat type in cats around the world. There are 4 variations of a tabby. A classic tabby also known as a blotched tabby. Brown mackeral tabbies are the most common.

Black stripes ranging from coal black to brownish on a background of brown to gray. This is when there is a swirly pattern creating a marbled effect. The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl. Although the marble pattern itself is derived from the bengal s domestic ancestors the appearance of the pattern of top bengal marbles needs to be strongly influenced by the wild asian leopard cat s genepool which means the horizontal flow which is especially evident when the cat is stretched.