SleepyShyCat's Cat Corner! 🐈

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Some orange cat facts! 🧡

Ginger cats are more likely to be male than female - this is because the “ginger gene” which produces the orange color is on the X chromosome. Females (xx) have two X chromosomes and so need two copies of this gene to become ginger, whereas males need only one (xy) 🐈

This means that around 80% of ginger cats are male 🐾

Ginger tom cats father tortoiseshell or ginger females. If both parents are ginger, then they will have all ginger kittens 🐈

Pheomelanin is the pigment responsible for the ginger colour in cats (this is the same pigment that causes red hair in humans). The amount of this pigment reflects how intense the ginger colour of the cat is 🐾

Although early socialization plays the biggest role in an adult cat’s personality, there is some anecdotal evidence that says cats’ personalities vary between different colors. Male Ginger cats have a reputation of being assertive, vocal and active. Female Ginger cats are known to be calmer and quieter 🐈

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Here's a fun fact 🐆🐅

Did you know there are 40 recognised species of wild cat (including the 7 big cats, and 33 small wild cats)! 🐾🐾

Although many people know of all the big cats, and a few of the more well known small cats, there's lots of species they never knew about - all which I think are super cool and interesting :D 🐈🐈‍⬛

Here's a list of all the cats... If you have any questions about any of them I will have facts to share! Or cute pictures 🦁🐯

Big cats:

(Panthera lineage):

• Lion
• Leopard
• Jaguar 
• Tiger
• Snow Leopard 
• Mainland Clouded Leopard 
• Sunda Clouded Leopard 

Small cats:

(Bay cat lineage) 

• Asiatic Golden Cat
• Bornean Bay Cat
• Marbled Cat

(Caracal lineage) 

• Caracal
• African Golden Cat
• Serval

(Leopardus lineage) 

• Geoffroy's Cat
• Guiña / Kodkod
• Northern Tiger cat (Oncilla) 
• Southern Tiger cat
• Andean cat
• Margay
• Pampas cat
• Ocelot 

(Lynx lineage) 

• Iberian Lynx
• Eurasian Lynx
• Canada Lynx 
• Bobcat

(Puma lineage) 

• Puma
• Jaguarundi
• Cheetah

(Leopard cat lineage) 

• Mainland Leopard cat
• Sunda Leopard cat
• Fishing cat
• Flat-headed cat
• Rusty-spotted cat
• Pallas's cat

(Felis lineage) 

• European Wildcat
• African-Asian Wildcat
• Sand cat
• Black-footed cat
• Jungle cat
• Chinese Mountain cat

• (+1 domestic cat!!) 

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