And they are not stripes! Look closely and they are elongated spots
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My whole life has been a lie!
Fun fact: you know those spots some animals have, like leopards or dalmatians? Humans do not have them.
Well now I don't know who to trust
Saw a great pic of that once, can't remember how it was revealed, under what spectrum or whatever. Anyone?
Woah, that's fascinating!
If you could figure out what your pattern was, and were the total body tattoo type, it would be cool as fuck to get a full body tattoo of your individual invisible (now visible, I guess) uniquely you skin pattern!
Humans have stripes too you just canβt see them.
And cats can see them!
"The lines seemed to be present at birth and didn't follow any other known body system such as vessels or nerves. Instead, they create sweeping chest arcs, mountainous shapes across the back, and swirling butt loops."
NGL, a part of me wished they were visible, but I'm afraid we'd just invent new forms of racism.
mine are visible, one just has to look closely. none of you are allowed to see tho.
I have many visible stripes. But thatβs just because Iβm covered in tattooes from the neck down.
That's how it works for other mammals as well. Your dog hasn't spots? Shave it and it will still have spots.
Hair, believe it or not, does go below the skin slightly!
Its a bit different though. The skin actually has pigmentation there. Its not just the hair showing through.
Not the case for most house cats
You're doing pussy shaving wrong.
Cool fact. Next time I get mauled by one Iβll just taunt them by calling them hairy zebras!
uhm, Zebras have hair too
But less
I'm not sure that subtle nuances like that are going to affect the way the tiger responds to the taunt...
You were already mauled by one?
I donβt like to talk about it
Interesting side fact I learned from a podcast: It was Alan Turing who first had a theory about how the stripes are created. https://phys.org/news/2012-02-alan-turing-1950s-tiger-stripe.html
Need to confirm. Need to shave orange cat.
As someone who used to give their maine coon a lion's cut, can verify no stripes.
Before you call me a crazy cat lady, he'd be a stinky poopy overheated boy in the summer lol.
My orange boy has had too many vet visits already (heβs a very special boy)
A leopard can never change it's spots,
The big tiger will never change it's stripes,
A hound dog will never change his bark,
And you can't make a heel toe the mark.
1 hour border Collie had surgery, I saw that where her fur was white, the skin was pink, and where the fur was black, the skin was also black.
Ride the tiger! You can see his stripes but you know he's clean ...
Thank you, TIL