r/aww • u/Wholesomepost • Aug 10 '21
This is the most aesthetically pleasing cat I’ve ever seen
https://i.redd.it/rqae0ddisfg71.jpg53
u/SagaStrider Aug 10 '21
2 for 1 kitty
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u/onlyr6s Aug 10 '21
Literally. Isn't coloring like this caused by 2 "kittens" merging into one before being born?
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u/Morgolol Aug 10 '21
Chimerism, pretty damn cool.
Another fascinating case is a woman who gave birth to her twin sisters child. DNA tests shows she's not the mom.
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u/onlyr6s Aug 10 '21
That human case is insane! Insane and insanely interesting, extremely good read. Thanks for linking that.
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u/ElisabetSobeck Aug 10 '21
Neapolitan ice cream
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u/TheKillerSpork Aug 10 '21
You mean Neapawlitan ice cream?
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u/RequiemStorm Aug 10 '21
More like "neapawlitan I scream endlessly at 3 AM because I want you to throw my fluffy ball to chase down the stairs but I won't bring it to you and if you don't get up to get it I'll jump on you or knock shit over in the game room until you do".
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u/sablon Aug 10 '21
A long hair dilute tortoiseshell! I have a dilute torty with the same coloration but different patterning. Can confirm they are the absolute softest.
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u/451balloons Aug 10 '21
It's always hard for me to tell between calicos and torties! Given how much white she has, wouldn't this lean calico?
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u/kevboard Aug 10 '21
I hope the cat is called Harvey...
...it would be a tragedy if it wasn't
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u/NearsightedNavigator Aug 10 '21
it’s a shame that we can’t see her teeth otherwise I’d call her Dent/two-face
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u/NaturalLog69 Aug 10 '21
The right half of the kitty looks exactly like my beloved childhood kitty who passed away last year... Do you think you could give your kitty a snuggle from me? She is so beautiful. ❤️
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u/Kendy3374CA Aug 10 '21
Chimera… look it up on google. She likely absorbed her twin in utero.
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u/Raevix Aug 10 '21 edited Aug 10 '21
No. She is likely a female calico. This is not a terribly uncommon fur pattern for female cats and almost none of them are actually chimeras.
This is just a very cute regular female kitty who deserves all the hugs.
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u/Intelligent_Time_348 Aug 10 '21
Is this a real cat?
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u/BlebBirb Aug 10 '21
yes! its called chimera, basically it was twins but they merged/absorbed eachother and became one cat
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u/Ihavesubscriptions Aug 10 '21 edited Aug 10 '21
It’s almost certainly not a chimera. Calico cats like this have split faces all the time, it’s just the way calico/tortoiseshell coloring works. The genes for red and black are on the X chromosome, which is why you don’t see very many male calicos (they need two X chromosomes).
Since you only need one working X at any time, when the kitten is developing each cell randomly chooses an X to ‘deactivate’, taking all its instruction from the other one. Since they do it at random, that means you get spots of red and black randomly arranged. Depending on when exactly it happened, they could end up with very blended colors, or with large spots or split faces. This is because when the cells deactivated their X chromosome, there were only a few of them.
Fun fact! This happens in people too! People with two X chromosomes have ‘stripes’ in their skin. However, you can’t see them because most people’s X chromosomes have almost the exact same skin color. But a few might actually be visible. I also saw someone once who had freckles only on some parts of their skin, and not on other parts, clearly arranged in stripes.
https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/424983/why-women-are-stripey
Another fun fact. Because one of the X’es has already been deactivated, if you took a cell from this cat (or any calico/tortoiseshell) and cloned it, it would only be one color. It would depend on which color was still active in the cell. The first cloned cat came from a calico, and came out a white spotted tabby (the white spotting gene being not on the X chromosome, meaning it was unaffected).
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u/Raevix Aug 10 '21
*fist bumps*
We will win this war or die trying.
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u/Ihavesubscriptions Aug 10 '21
I swear I must have explained this at least 20 times now on Reddit, haha. It’s a very cool cat and chimeras are a cool phenomenon, but so are the genetics behind calico coloring!
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u/BlebBirb Aug 10 '21
very interesting, I didn't know that. because of the split nose and the orange tabby look one one side I was pretty sure it was chimera but my bad
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u/littlesirlance Aug 10 '21
"Jedi and Sith wield the Ashla and Bogan. The light and the dark. I'm the one in the middle. The Bendu."
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u/sickinside92 Aug 10 '21
Reminds of a stray dog we took in last year, he was all white except for his face which was pitch black. Strangest looking dog I've ever seen, it looked like he dipped his face in a bucket of black paint! I wish I had a picture of him. He was really sweet to. We got to keep him for a couple of weeks until we found his owner because we just didn't trust leaving him at the shelter.
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u/Isaacvithurston Aug 10 '21
My brain tells me it's so close to the symmetry our brains love yet so far away.
Still cute cat lol
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u/AcidEmpire Aug 10 '21
I know, just KNOW that belly is dangerous. But so help me I want to put my face in it so bad...
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u/kellylikesspaghetti Aug 10 '21
Is the coloring on the back split down the middle too, I wonder? So much soft fluff here 😭😭😭 No wonder cats take so many naps, they must be supremely comfortable ALL the time!
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u/mypowerisoutagain Aug 10 '21
looks like how my printer starts printing color then the rest of it black.
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u/sleeping-phoenix92 Aug 10 '21
Ooh wow a yin yang kitty! Are the eyes two different colors as well ??
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u/BurcoPresentsHisAcc Aug 10 '21
This was perfect till I realized its left ear was black, why do I have to be like this…. Still cute tho
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u/Night_Towel69 Aug 10 '21
He or she is the very balance of the darkness and the light