A new colour of cat has been discovered
A new colour of cat has been discovered
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A new colour of cat has been discovered | BBC Science Focus Magazine
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Damn, some months ago I came across a void for adoption that had very unusual white flecks on its body. Now I'm even more sad I didn't adopt him 😿
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Breaking: cats just dropped a new color
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Wake up babe, new cat color just dropped.
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This new cat color was detected around 5 megaparsecs distance from the Milky Way, in the general direction of the Leo constellation, using the Very Large Cat Ear Antenna Array at the 21 cm wavelength of the microwave part of the spectrum.
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Aw man, I was hoping for green or blue
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Or this guy
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Best news I've heard all year.
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When they didn’t find the KIT gene to be causing the whiteness, the scientists turned to something more dramatic: sequencing the salmiak cats' entire genome
OMG you can’t just ask a cat why it’s white!
Also pretty neat that the gene responsible for cat colouring is called KIT, science proves we named kitties correctly.
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pretty neat that the gene responsible for cat colouring is called KIT, science proves we named kitties correctly
Me side-eyeing the Sonic hedgehog protein that "regulates the embryonic morphogenesis in all animals". 😒
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Only matter of time before we get our rainbow-glitter cat.
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When will we get red Vines flavored cats?
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Alf?!
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Dude, you gotta stop eating cats, no matter what they taste like
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Something, something, eating pussy, something.
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Cats with the unusual coat – known as ‘salmiak cats’ (which translates as ‘salty liquorice’)
A better translation would be ‘ammonium chloride’, because that’s what salmiak is.
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Sometimes, words mean more than 1 thing...
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That is salmiak flavored licorice, it’s not salmiak. Just like a bag of paprika flavoured crisps says ‘paprika’ on the front, doesn’t mean that paprika is another word for crisps.
The only relation between licorice and salmiak is that it’s used to flavour a specific type of licorice.
It’s also used in fertilizer, as flux for soldering or galvanizing metal, in batteries, and lots of other applications.
You can also buy salmiak powder as a form of candy on it’s own.
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