Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their ...

Female cats with one copy of sex-linked orange appear partially orange—with a mottled pattern known as tortoiseshell, or with patches of orange, black and white known as calico. That's due to a ...

Cats have been known to bite their owners for petting them, even when they've approached you and sat in your lap - and a pet ...

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 ...

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna ... in skin—in tissue taken from orange patches compared to tissue from black or white patches. "This suggests that ...

Meet Citronella! Citronella is a uniquely gorgeous calico with striking patches of orange and black on white and a triangular face and eyes. This happy and friendly three-year-old was brought in as a ...

Scientists have identified the genetic mutation responsible for the ginger coloration in domestic cats —a phenomenon never observed in mammals.

the X chromosome holds the code for black or orange pigmentation (white is driven by another mechanism). So a male cat (XY) with the variant can be entirely orange, yet female cats (XX ...

Cats can be quite challenging to read, but a pet behaviour expert has shared some insight into their behaviour - including ...

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 some traits that make them stand out. Think of famous felines like 'Puss in Boots' and 'Garfield'!