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thank u! sadly the reason I don't have a video on bengals is that I can't find anything either :((( I know that bengals are a hybrid breed, descending from crossing w/asian leopard cats. the rossette spotting comes from them. generally speaking, it seems that the more removed from the original hybrid event the individual is, the less intense the rossetting will be (AKA, grandkids' spots less intense than parents, etc). that info comes purely from personal observation of confirmed bengals, and is also true of other hybrid breeds (like the savannah). also, though not directly relevant to your question, since we're talking about bengals & genes, I'll bring up that low-F* male bengals are infertile. it takes multiple generations of breeding to produce fertile males. females are fertile, although (take this with a grain of salt) i distantly recall reading that some may be infertile or have reduced fertility. *"low-F" means closer to the hybridization event. high-F would be the opposite. so the asian leopard cat's direct offspring is the lowest possible F# which is F1. their offspring's kids are F2, their offspring's grandkids are F3...getting higher in F#s.

@@littlehungrywarrior Thank you! That does help a bit :D

Nope. I mean, their ancestor had the REGION, but not that mutation. it just happened to mutate separately in both species. that particular region's job involves controlling the shape of eumelanin, so it's a pretty easy mutation to mutate. albinism's the same way; it's very easy to mutate it in a lot of different ways. if the common ancestor of carnivora had liver we'd be seeing it in almost every feliform AND caniform, if not every. the same mutation, or a very very similar one, popping up in different species is super, super common - especially in domestic species. look at himalayan! rats, mice, rabbits, cats, even 2 individual dogs all independently mutated it. cats mutated two different versions of it! this is called an "analogous mutation" btw :3

@@littlehungrywarriorthank you for all the info, that’s really cool!

OH and can oriental shorthairs be long hair also? like obviously not purebred but could they keep the face and body type with long hair?

@@bluerabb oriental shorthair isn't a gene, it's a breed. breeds are closed gene pools (a group of individuals who do not outbreed to those not in the group, tho there's sometimes exceptions to this in breeds) with set standards. they result from careful selective breeding of related individuals over the course of several generations until a defined standard is met. there's no unique genes to oriental shorthair. they were simply selected for a bunch of polygenes responsible for the various shapes etc associated with the breed. any cat can have them; what makes them a member of the breed is that they are part of that closed genepool, descending from exclusively individuals of that closed genepool. (sometimes a gene is exclusive to a breed, but still not what defines the breed. for example, sunshine in siberians. if a siberian breeds with a random cat, and the siberian is sunshine, the kittens might be sunshine, but they will NOT be siberians.) all cats are cats, so they can all interbreed with each other. the shapes of any given cat, regardless of how hard they were selected for or for how long, are ultimately just polygenes (with the exception of things like manx tails, foldie ears, etc which are just monogenes). as for longhair orientals - longhair orientals are technically considers a separate breed from shorthair orientals, but the only difference is hair type. it's like persians and exotic shorthairs. orientals might be born longhair or shorthair but are registered & judged as two separate breeds. I recommend looking up CFA breed standards :3

@@littlehungrywarrior thank you so much for the detail and quickness of your answer :)

thank you! :3 White spotting can only be stark white. leucism is caused by pigment-producing cells failing to reach their destination, so white spotting is actually NO color; the hair reflects white bc it's reflecting all colors equally (absorbing light waves is what gives things their color) the best way I can think to give a gray cat a lighter tail without it being white is to make them a longhair smoke, as sometimes smokes have lighter tails (shorthair might ghost too much)

@@littlehungrywarrior ah okay thank you so much!

1. of course! sepia and mink work the same way as siamese, there's no reason they couldn't be, and also no reason they'd always be brown. think about it logically: here's a ginger cat, with the alleles cb/cb. cb/cb leads to changes in tyrosinase function that cause pigment to kinda fail in areas which are internally warmer, but not very much. what appearance would this cause? 2. of course! why couldn't they be? d/d causes pigment distribution to mess up, making hairs appear lighter. cs & cb both cause pigment to fail in areas which are internally warmer to different degrees. combine them - what appearance would this cause? (google image search "blue lynx point cat," they're beautiful!) 3. of course! why couldn't they? cs & cb cause aforementioned pigment failure in hot areas. the S allele causes pigment-producing cells to fail to reach their destinations. if patches of the body are unable to receive any pigment due to cells being unable to reach their destinations, but the rest of the patches which do have pigment are being affected by temperature, what appearance would this cause? there's an entire breed of cat whose standard is being point with white spotting :3 they're called Snowshoes there's no such thing as a stupid question and I'm glad you came to me asking, but most of your questions can be answered by approaching them logically while considering the mechanisms of the genes themselves. so I recommend keeping mechanisms in mind in the future, it may save you having to wait for a response - or get you a more detailed answer if you get stuck on something more specific :3

​@@littlehungrywarriorI got confused about the whole sepia and mink color thing because when I searched "mink" and "sepia" they were literally ALL browns, and I went like "oh shit they're all brown", so I came to watch this video and I saw that you said that color points, including sepias and minks, are not epistatic, and I have never felt so confused before 😭 but anyway thanks for answering

@@monicadokray5677 there's no shame in being confused! it's always good to ask questions :3 like I said I'm glad you brought it to me

oooh I love those, do show me when it's done (if you want to) :O

Well, as mentioned in the video, they probably have pain from the ear condition. Stub tail could be from a number of things; possibly genetic, possibly developmental, possibly lost in an injury. so I can't speak too much on that, but it'll impede communication & balance for sure. if by "short" you mean dwarf, then again, same as video. otherwise, sometimes cats are just small and they might get bullied but they might be fine

depends on a lot of factors! is the tabby carrying nonagouti? what about cs? show me your punnetts and I'll tell you if I see any mistakes :3

no stupid questions! questions means you're learning, and learning is always smart in females, eggs are produced by the ovaries. that means in order to have a ginger kitten, the part of the ovaries that produced eggs needs to at least partially consist of the ginger-having genome. visible ginger location doesn't matter bc the fur & skin don't produce gametes. only the gamete-producing organs matter, because those are the cells that divide into eggs/sperm that then become the new offspring :3

​@@littlehungrywarrior So can she have a ginger she-cat and a black based tom-cat in the same litter?

@@GatoDoRio-qp8vh yep! two different genomes make up her ovaries, then two different genomes can produce gametes

If the parents have low white, it's possible for S/S homozygosity to produce a fully-white kitten, though they'd likely be born w/van spots that would go away with age alt: just make them albino instead of white dominant lol, it's recessive

@@littlehungrywarrior Was hoping to avoid going albino because the character is canonically stated to be dominant white (Idk if you've watch Nyoko_Art's Galaxyclan Clan Gen series, but if you have then it is Ottertail) but considering only one of his parents doesn't have any white I'm just gonna go albino cause you have a point there xD

@@littlehungrywarrior Sorry to bother you again btw but I'm not really sure if what I have in my notes for white spotting is correct even after rewatching the video? I'm trying to fix it but I ain't 100% everything is right Wd/Wd = Dominant white (Any color eyes; often deaf) Wd/w = Dominant white but carrying no white w/w = No white S/S = White spotting (Any eye color) S/w = White spotting but carrying no spotting s/s = No white spotting

@@Furby_Husband not a bother at all ^^ Mostly correct! one small important change: S/S = High white spotting (any eye color) S/w = Low white spotting S/S cats are >50% white, S/W cats are <50% white :3