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How come cats have black?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

There are two pigments available in cats' fur: black (or extremely dark brown) and an orangey yellow colour, and all colours and patterns are made up of these two colours. (White in cats is a result of the absence of these pigments.) The black pigment appears in the wild cat as the stripes that help it to be camouflaged. Mutations have occured in the wild that allow cats' fur to be one colour without any tabby markings; as a result we can have black cats.

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