Orange Cats Male Female Ratio

According to research about 81 of orange cats are male.

Orange cats male female ratio. Heres how it works. Genes on the X chromosome are said to be sex-linked. Orange tabby cat toms outnumber queens approximately four to one.

This is because the gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome and like humans females have two Xs and males are XY. Males usually only have one set of the chromosome so in the rare instance when a tom cat has two of them he too can enjoy a beautiful calico coat. The ginger gene which produces the orange colour is on the X chromosome.

While it is a fact that there is a higher ratio of orange tabbies that are male the exact percentage is actually about 80 percent toms to 20 percent queens. Calvin and Hobbes are a long-running comic strip duo. The orange mutant gene is found only on the X or female chromosome.

An owner of a cat is thinking of mating her black female cat with an orange male. We have many female orange tabby cats in my practice. There are 38897 more women than men in the county which is 124 of the total population.

To have black and orange in the same cat the cat needs two X chromosomes. We bet you didnt know that there are far more male orange tabby cats than there are females. Have many great adventures with your own striped tiger when you name your orange cat.

Are All Orange Cats Male. In fact there are 80 males to every 20 females. About 81 percent of orange cats are male says Bell.