Yeah I was wondering if it was a photoshop, myself. So it's really only possible for this pic to be a chimera or a photoshop, yeah? You're saying this can't be a tortie?
Yeah, as far as I'm aware (and I spend way too much time reading about cat coat genetics), that combination of colors could only happen in a cat with 2 unique sets of DNA. I would still call that a tortie, though.
That blue eye though, I don't know enough about eye color genetics to confidently say, but the other features of the cat look like a Maine Coon, so it is possible that this cat came from a breder and there was intentional selection for eye color.
I have never seen a bright blue eye like that on an orange cat. I think Photoshop is definitely a possibility, but also, sometimes nature just does a wild artistic cat for all of us.
Looks like a Maine Coon, so probably came from a breeder, and while it's not an area I've really dug into, it looks like there are some Maine Coon breeders producing cats with blue eyes. Could naturally be blue, but the brightness definitely seems artificial.
actually I didn't know that it wasn't just a Japanese word pronounced in English, so that makes a lot more sense with the lyrics as teto is frustrated at how she's canonically 30 years old but all the other vocaloids are like 16/17 and she's made out to be exactly like them.
also she's a utauloid not a vocaloid like the rest
I know nothing about vocaloids so I have no context here, but I can tell you that "chimera" is a word that English borrowed from ancient Greek, which is why it doesn't sound much like a usual English word. There's an old Greek myth about a hero called Bellerophon slaying a monster called the chimera, and since the mythical chimera is a hybrid of several animals we adopted the word as a more general term
Chimerism is a genetic trait found in all sorts of animals. It's when you're so close to your fraternal twin you wind up the same organism. Sometimes it does cool stuff like making your eyes different colors or giving you a clearly defined change in hair color at a point. Others get fun little Easter eggs inside our bodies that show up at inconvenient times like people failing the genetic parenting test of someone they gave birth to or extra body parts. It can also cause serious issues if it manifests as mosaicism.
The all page is the only one I use on lemmy. Every time I try to browse an individual community that I’m interested in it has like 3 posts from 2 weeks ago and nothing recent at all.
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Skua@kbin.earth · 51 pts · 341d
This cat would need absolutely no changes to show up in a movie as some kind of ancient fey trickster being
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 39 pts · 341d
I wonder if they’re a chimera (i.e. started out as two embryos which fused, and has different genes depending on where you look).
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 341d
Sure looks like it
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 9 pts · 341d
That, or a photoshop. Since the dilution gene hits both colors, a tortie/calico can either be grey and cream or black(brown) and orange.
dingus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
Yeah I was wondering if it was a photoshop, myself. So it's really only possible for this pic to be a chimera or a photoshop, yeah? You're saying this can't be a tortie?
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 3 pts · 340d
Yeah, as far as I'm aware (and I spend way too much time reading about cat coat genetics), that combination of colors could only happen in a cat with 2 unique sets of DNA. I would still call that a tortie, though.
That blue eye though, I don't know enough about eye color genetics to confidently say, but the other features of the cat look like a Maine Coon, so it is possible that this cat came from a breder and there was intentional selection for eye color.
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 3 pts · 340d
I have never seen a bright blue eye like that on an orange cat. I think Photoshop is definitely a possibility, but also, sometimes nature just does a wild artistic cat for all of us.
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 3 pts · 340d
Looks like a Maine Coon, so probably came from a breeder, and while it's not an area I've really dug into, it looks like there are some Maine Coon breeders producing cats with blue eyes. Could naturally be blue, but the brightness definitely seems artificial.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 341d
What's a kai-mary-uh, precious?
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 4 pts · 341d
TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 341d
that's the name of a vocaloid song!
https://youtu.be/w7FtS1LFK_0
actually I didn't know that it wasn't just a Japanese word pronounced in English, so that makes a lot more sense with the lyrics as teto is frustrated at how she's canonically 30 years old but all the other vocaloids are like 16/17 and she's made out to be exactly like them.
also she's a utauloid not a vocaloid like the rest
Skua@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 341d
I know nothing about vocaloids so I have no context here, but I can tell you that "chimera" is a word that English borrowed from ancient Greek, which is why it doesn't sound much like a usual English word. There's an old Greek myth about a hero called Bellerophon slaying a monster called the chimera, and since the mythical chimera is a hybrid of several animals we adopted the word as a more general term
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d
Chimerism is a genetic trait found in all sorts of animals. It's when you're so close to your fraternal twin you wind up the same organism. Sometimes it does cool stuff like making your eyes different colors or giving you a clearly defined change in hair color at a point. Others get fun little Easter eggs inside our bodies that show up at inconvenient times like people failing the genetic parenting test of someone they gave birth to or extra body parts. It can also cause serious issues if it manifests as mosaicism.
nocturne@piefed.social · 23 pts · 341d
VoidCrow99@retrolemmy.com · 21 pts · 341d
Such a pretty cat 😍
billwashere@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 341d
Jesus that’s a beautiful cat. And I didn’t even really like cats.
dingus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
Kind of funny to be in a cat sub haha. :)
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 341d
I see it on the All page.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d
The all page is the only one I use on lemmy. Every time I try to browse an individual community that I’m interested in it has like 3 posts from 2 weeks ago and nothing recent at all.
derry@midwest.social · 17 pts · 341d
Looks like your printer ran out of ink there
Edit: cool cat, 11/10, would definitely love one like it
justsquigglez@leminal.space · 16 pts · 341d
He looks like he may have... wares. If you have the coin.
Townlately@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 341d
Looks like the perfect being exists after all
TurkishKebab@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 340d
Does this Cat have homophobia?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 340d
Wouldn't know. Not my cat
iamanurd@midwest.social · 2 pts · 340d
Typo, or do you have a reason to suspect bigotry from the fine feline? 😉
iamanurd@midwest.social · 11 pts · 341d
This cat is amazing!!
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 341d
Hoooooooo!
PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social · 9 pts · 341d
Cat: Am I a punchline to you? I murder motherfuckers for a living Jessica
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 341d
Closer to Halloween, and this consummate planeswalker does so for an unliving Jessica, no doubt.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 340d
If that is a real image that damn well better be its name.
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
You can tell this cat was in an accident and had to get the front hood replaced.
Angelusz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d
Would have to meet the cat in person to truly judge its character. Interesting beastie if real though!
mitch@piefed.mitch.science · 3 pts · 341d
What's this about bsky?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 341d
Bluesky
mitch@piefed.mitch.science · 5 pts · 341d
Sure, but, aren't we on the Fedi? Or, you mean, this specific cat is posted on bsky?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 341d
Yeah that