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🧬Time for some #CatScience!🧬

Siamese #Cats are born white and gain their colour through their life!

It’s based on.. wait for it TEMPERATURE 🥶 ❄️

Siamese cats are temperature dependent albinos! A.K.A a live kitty heat map!

A thread featuring my cats🧵 👇🏽 Siamese cat sitting on a wi...
New born Siamese Cats are almost completely white!

I’ll keep the genetics simple here so stay with me. Siamese cats have a specific gene that blocks colour 🛑

BUT the enzyme made by this gene only works at a certain temperature. ~101F (38-39.2 C) a cats body temperature! Image
The womb is pretty warm. Kittens come out white, but as they cool the colour blocking begins to stop working. Staring with the extremities!

Look at their little noses and ears they get dark first because they are the coolest part of their body.

Friggin adorable. Siamese kitten with a dark ...
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