![]() ![]() Of course marble bengals are also bengals so you'd expect to see puffy whisker pads, small ears, long body, thick tail and a demanding, active personality. The background colour, the outline of the markings and the inside of the markings. Giving the cat three different colours in the coat. Mackerel Tabby: Vertical unbroken thin lines instead. Bengal, Highland Lynx) where the spotted pattern differs from the spotted tabby. Round spots, coloured to root of hair, ideally the spots are randomly placed, not vertically aligned. This is basically where the swirls have a dark outline and then a paler colour inside. Leopard: Modified version of Spotted Tabby. The coat is usually clearer (not always though, there are for example some silver classic tabby American shorthairs that are really clear coated) it often has the bengal red rufous colouring in the coat and usually tricoloured. In the marble bengals the pattern is more chaotic and the breeders are working hard at getting away from the bulls eye type pattern. The personality of an orange tabby cat is influenced more by its breed. The Bengal is known for its rosettes, which are the spots on its coat, and the tabby has similar markings, but they do not tend to be as uniform. Breeds with yellow or amber eyes include the Bengal, American Shorthair, Manx. They both have similar brown and black markings. The pattern on the side is often called "a bulls eye". Christian Adams Last updated: There are some similarities between the Bengal and the tabby. ![]() People went oh wow that's a beautiful cat and lo and behold a new pattern was allowed in bengals.Ĭlassic tabby is a pattern where instead of the stripes of a mackarel tabby you get thicker swirls running in a circular pattern on the cat's flank. I.e the genes for the spotting reacted in an interesting and beautiful way with the classic tabby genes. they can have gold., green, brown, hazel eyes. The marble pattern in bengals started out as a variation of the classic tabby pattern. More commonly known as the brown, the officially named (according to TICA) Brown (black) Spotted Tabby come in all shades of brown including rich reds and oranges as well as cooler brown tones. Right, I figured it'd be useful to make a thread about classic tabbies and marble bengals and the differences between the two.Ĭlassic tabby is a pattern and can be found in lots of different breeds of cats (including your normal moggies). ![]()
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