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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago

And they are not stripes! Look closely and they are elongated spots

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

My whole life has been a lie!

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago

Humans have stripes too you just can’t see them.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"The lines seemed to be present at birth and didn't follow any other known body system such as vessels or nerves. Instead, they create sweeping chest arcs, mountainous shapes across the back, and swirling butt loops."

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And cats can see them!

Edit: nice, I got corrected. Actually learned something.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

"Contrary to some internet rumors, they can't actually be seen by other animals either (no, your cat cannot see your secret stripes)."

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

NGL, a part of me wished they were visible, but I'm afraid we'd just invent new forms of racism.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

mine are visible, one just has to look closely. none of you are allowed to see tho.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I have many visible stripes. But that’s just because I’m covered in tattooes from the neck down.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Cool fact. Next time I get mauled by one I’ll just taunt them by calling them hairy zebras!

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure that subtle nuances like that are going to affect the way the tiger responds to the taunt...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

You were already mauled by one?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I don’t like to talk about it

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

That's how it works for other mammals as well. Your dog has spots? Shave it and it will still have spots.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Hair, believe it or not, does go below the skin slightly!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Its a bit different though. The skin actually has pigmentation there. Its not just the hair showing through.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not the case for most house cats

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

You're doing pussy shaving wrong.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Interesting side fact I learned from a podcast: It was Alan Turing who first had a theory about how the stripes are created. https://phys.org/news/2012-02-alan-turing-1950s-tiger-stripe.html

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

1 hour border Collie had surgery, I saw that where her fur was white, the skin was pink, and where the fur was black, the skin was also black.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Need to confirm. Need to shave orange cat.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As someone who used to give their maine coon a lion's cut, can verify no stripes.

Before you call me a crazy cat lady, he'd be a stinky poopy overheated boy in the summer lol.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My orange boy has had too many vet visits already (he’s a very special boy)

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

A leopard can never change it's spots,

The big tiger will never change it's stripes,

A hound dog will never change his bark,

And you can't make a heel toe the mark.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: you know those spots some animals have, like leopards or dalmatians? Humans do not have them.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Saw a great pic of that once, can't remember how it was revealed, under what spectrum or whatever. Anyone?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Blaschko's lines happen mostly in mosaicism, where an embryo is formed by the fusion of two embryos, gets a mutation early in development, or otherwise gets two different genotypes. It can also be caused by X-linked genes. If those genotypes produce different skin colours or react differently to skin diseases, you can see the lines directly.

It looks like any visible form of mosaic disease may present along Blaschko's lines.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If you could figure out what your pattern was, and were the total body tattoo type, it would be cool as fuck to get a full body tattoo of your individual invisible (now visible, I guess) uniquely you skin pattern!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Woah, that's fascinating!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Well now I don't know who to trust

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's neat

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you, TIL

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ride the tiger! You can see his stripes but you know he's clean ...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
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