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The Khao Manee cat (Thai: ขาวมณี, RTGS: Khao Mani, lit. "white jewel"), or Khao Plort (Thai: ขาวปลอด, lit. "complete white"), also known as the Diamond Eye cat, [1] is a rare, natural breed of domestic cat originating in Thailand, which has an ancient ancestry tracing back hundreds of years.
A rare predominantly black cat with odd eyes. The odd-eyed colouring is caused when either the epistatic (recessive) white gene or dominant white (which masks any other colour genes and turns a cat completely solid white) [3] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolour coats) [4] prevents melanin granules from reaching one eye during development, resulting in a cat ...
Domestic cat with complete heterochromia, also referred to as an odd-eyed cat. Eye color, specifically the color of the irises, is determined primarily by the concentration and distribution of melanin. Although the processes determining eye color are not fully understood, it is known that inherited eye color is determined by multiple genes ...
Normal eyed cat and heterochromic or 'odd-eyed' cat. Rarely, a Japanese Bobtail, especially a predominantly white specimen, may have heterochromia, or eyes of different colors. Regardless of breed, cats with this trait are known as odd-eyed cats. In this breed, one iris is blue ("silver" in Japanese breeding terms) while the other is yellow ...
Macavity is the name given by several bus drivers from the West Midlands, England to a white odd-eyed cat which, since January 2007, has been observed to regularly use the local bus service on its own. [22] [23] Macavity's fur is reported to be completely white, he has a green left eye and a blue right eye, and he wears a purple collar. His ...
There's nothing like watching your pet experience something new for the first time. When it's a blind pet, it takes on a whole new meaning. For Noey, the blind cat, losing his sight hasn't stopped ...
The mascot of the 2010 FIBA World Championship of basketball, hosted by Turkey, was an anthropomorphised Van cat named Bascat. He had a white coat and odd eyes, one blue and one green, and his head was shaped with design cues from the crescent moon on the Turkish flag. [33]
"It was just circling, and circling. You could see it wasn't completely frozen over, so I panicked," Felicani said. "Then I heard the crackling and was like, 'he's going in.'"