• Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
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    4 days ago

    It’s called piebaldism. It’s caused in cats when melanistic cells (color causing cells) fail to migrate to all parts of the body during development. Such cats can have a wide variety of patterns from tuxedo cats to cow cats. This cat just has an unusual pattern.

    A more common look:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicolor_cat

    Chimerism causes left/right differences, not top to bottom.