just cute animals

Sideblog for @PossiblyElven for cute animal posts idk

[catlovesanimals]

Just for clarification: bugs is animals, and I rarely tag anything.

[creditednature]

Sophie Turlur-Chabanon

[snailtongue]

[ID: A small brown and white calf resting their head on the head of a large black longhorn cow. The bigger cow is grazing and paying no mind to the baby.]

[dame-de-pique]

Opzittende hond in een stoel bij een raam, 1900-1910

[pangur-and-grim]

he’s always doing some bullshit

[lesbx]

you guys are posting too loud you woke her up

[ltwilliammowett]

Handsome Side-Boy was the HMS Neptune‘s ship’s cat, early 20th century

[michaelnordeman]

White Wagtail/sädesärla. Värmland, Sweden (14 June 2024).

[pangur-and-grim]

it’s just a really weird way for him to stand

[numberlover1729]

I see 2 awesome cats and a hilarious book. i think you'll enjoy it

[pangur-and-grim]

thanks! I’ve got my criticisms, but I did enjoy it for the most part

[ramalamacreatures]

Handmade polymer clay White-headed Vulture sculpture painted with acrylics.

[muttsandmustelidae]

roan>>>>>

[abortionsommelier]

Can a similar color show up in cats or is that impossible?

[muttsandmustelidae]

would love for someone who understands cat coat genetics to chime in with more info, but from a quick google search all i’m seeing is that a few cats in Finland have popped up with a roan-like coat pattern?

^ like this stunning guy here

[triangle-dog]

They found the mutation that causes the salmiak pattern shown above, it's a deletion downstream of the KIT gene (KIT controls several other, but not all, of the other white cat markings). It's a recessive mutation, Photo c in the figure below shows a normal patterned carrier next to his salmiak patterned brother. The carriers may have some white on their coat, but it's unclear if it is due to the single salmiak allele or another cause.

So yeah, it's possible. I'm not aware of any breeding projects for it though.

"FIGURE 1 ... (a) Salmiak solid black cat (aa/wsalwsal), (b) salmiak solid blue cat (diluted black, aa/dd/wsalwsal), (c) salmiak brown mackerel tabby (wsalwsal) (right) and his normal-colored brother heterozygous for salmiak (wsalw), (d) salmiak phenotype on a long-haired solid black cat (not genotyped), (e) salmiak solid black cat (aa/wsalwsal) and (f) salmiak phenotype on a tortoiseshell cat (not genotyped). Cat a was sequenced, and cats b, c and e were genotyped for salmiak. Photo credits: (a) Ari Kankainen and (b–e) courtesy of the cat owners."

Source: A new Finnish flavor of feline coat coloration, “salmiak,” is associated with a 95-kb deletion downstream of the KIT gene. Anderson, H., Salonen, M., Toivola, S., Blades, M., Lyons, L.A., Forman, O.P., Hytönen, M.K. and Lohi, H. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/age.13438

[morganathewitch]

Unrestricted summer fun with Ymer in the forest today~

[followthebluebell]

Testing the definition of a "cat"

[konoko]

[catsofyore]

Brat of yore caught on film. Photos from my collection, 1969.

[ambermaitrejean]

European starling. Jefferson County, Colorado. Photo by Amber Maitrejean

[draconym]

Fire Marshall: Her name is Blondie. Me: Oh wow she's adorable. What does she do? Fire Marshall: She does arson. Me: She's a criminal? Fire Marshall: ... She's trained to detect arson at the scene of a fire. Me: Oh, well I guess that's cool, too.