On April 11, 2025, @ginukcoffee shared a video from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, featuring a uniquely colored ginger cat with a black stripe running from its head to the base of its tail. The ...

How cats get their stripes is a decades-old mystery in the life sciences, ... (Felis serval), an African wild cat that usually sports bold, black spots but occasionally grows a coat of tiny, ...

Tuxedo cat with black fur and white belly. CREDIT: ... The zebrafish, one of developmental biologists’ favorite workhorses, sports clean, black-and-yellow stripes from head to tailfin.

For instance, zebra skin is black under their black-and-white striped coats. ... However big cats, such as tigers, have skin patterns that mirror their fur, says van der Merwe.

If a cat has a solid black hue, but also the dominant tabby stripe gene, heavy exposure to the sun can make the black pigment in its fur break down to reveal its once-invisible stripes (another ...

Some big cats have spots - this big cat has stripes. Tigers are stripy all over. Look at the beautiful, thick, black stripes on this tiger. ... It's got black and white stripes all over.

Another way to view it, however, is as a coat peppered with tiny black spots, Barsh said. ... these genes do not by themselves control whether cats have spots or stripes in the first place.