Marble Bengal Coat Development

P p 14 p p marbled cats reach sexual maturity at 21 or 22 months of age and have lived for up to 12 years in captivity.

Marble bengal coat development.

Bengals have a wild appearance. Marble or marbled bengal cats. 2 the marbled cat was once considered to belong to the pantherine lineage of cats. A bengals coat can have hairs with an iridescent sheen making it look as if it has been sprinkled with glitter.

Kittens that have a closed pattern such as this are known as sheet marbles and their patterns open up as they mature. A unique characteristic of the bengal is a distinct glitter effect over their fur. Proudly presented by hdw enterprises foothill felines bengals. Marbled kittens start with blackish grey coats with small streaks of lighter colored fur scattered about their coat.

These markings are in the. Their history genetics development and evolution from foothill felines bengals in sacramento ca. These markings are 1800 to 2400 range. The bengal cat is a domesticated cat breed created from hybrids of domestic cats especially the spotted egyptian mau with the asian leopard cat prionailurus bengalensis the breed name comes from the leopard cat s taxonomic name.

Dob 2013 a clouded rosetted bengal kitten development stages. P our bengals are more than just breeding cats felis longicaudata proposed by henri marie ducrotay de blainville in 1843 was a zoological specimen from india or cochinchina. Regardless of colors and patterns all bengals should display the same conformation which is reminiscent of their ancestor the truly beautiful asian leopard cat. Non ticked coat with very large dark spots and a cat named torchbearer.

This is an example of an exceptional tri tone marble. This is andia s darker clouded rosetted kitten mango in her development stages. Bengal coats also come in a marbled pattern. The blue and the silver both come in spotted or marbled patterns.

The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl. The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. This first marble kitten was a female and her coloring was very soft. Cosmo is an example of a snow marbled tabby the snow color is categorized in three colors.

Their golden shimmer comes from their leopard cat ancestry and their coats may show spots rosettes arrowhead markings or. As with a spotted bengal the tail tip and paw pads must be black and the belly must be patterned. These are seal lynx seal sepia and seal mink tabby the lynx tabby has blue eyes the mink has aqua or green eyes and the sepia has gold or green eyes all snows have an ivory background with a contrasting pattern. The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors.

Refer to the example below to see sven s development.