Animal Welfare Professionals

The biology underlying mammalian color pattern has long been a mystery. But with a little help from CATS, and Alan Turing, we have new insight.

"The colors of cats are more intricate than the hues of humanity, with striations and spots of light and dark creating the distinctive coat patterns of ocelots, jaguars, cheetahs, and of course the leopard's spots of fable fame. These are called periodic color patterns. A hypothesis explaining how this complex coloring may arise dates from the early 1950s from a seemingly unlikely source – Alan Turing of computer science fame."
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Monica Frenden-Tarant
Maddie's® Director of Feline Lifesaving
American Pets Alive!
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