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*’calico cats’ are ‘domestic cats’ with a spotted / parti-colored coat that is predominantly ‘white’ with patches of 2 other ‘colors’*
*often, the 2 other colors are ‘orange’ + ‘black’*
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(outside North America, the pattern is more usually called tortoiseshell-and-white)
In the province of Quebec, Canada, they are sometimes called chatte d’Espagne (French for ‘(female) cat of Spain’).
Other names include
brindle,
tricolor cat,
tobi mi-ke
(Japanese for ‘triple fur’),
and lapjeskat
(Dutch for ‘patches cat’);
calicoes with diluted coloration have been called calimanco or clouded tiger.
Occasionally, the tri-color calico coloration is combined with a tabby patterning.
This calico patched tabby is called a caliby
“Calico” refers only to a color pattern on the fur, not to a breed.
Among the breeds whose standards allow calico coloration are
the Manx,
American Shorthair,
British Shorthair,
Persian,
Japanese Bobtail,
Exotic Shorthair,
Siberian,
Turkish Van,
and Turkish Angora.
Because ‘genetic determination’ of coat colors in calico cats is linked to the X chromosome, calicoes are nearly always female, with one color linked to the maternal X chromosome and a second color linked to the paternal X chromosome.
(because males only have one X chromosome, a male calico would have to have a rare condition where they have 3 sex chromosomes (two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome) in order to be calico)
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(in addition to other ‘symptoms’ caused by the ‘condition’, these ‘male calicos’ are often ‘sterile’)
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