Orange Cats Male Female Ratio

An interesting fact about ginger or orange cats is that in most cases they are males.

Orange cats male female ratio. As with humans female cats have paired sex chromosomes XX and male cats have XY sex chromosomes. The average life expectancy of orange tabby cats are 10-16 years. The gene that determines orange fur is on the X chromosome so both male and female Calico can be black or orange.

More than 75 of orange tabby cats are male. In reality orange tabby cats can also be female. The orange mutant gene is found only on the X or female chromosome.

The piebald gene is on a different chromosome. Males usually only have one set of the chromosome so in the rare instance when a tom cat has two of them he too can enjoy a beautiful calico coat. As a result of genetics according to Dr.

Black coated female male Orange coated female male Tortoiseshell intermingled black and orange in fur in female cats only Parent cats Black X Orange male female xo Non-red black XoXoX0Y xo Red 1. Genes on the X chromosome are said to be sex-linked. Calico and tortoiseshell cats however are almost always female.

Im looking at the distribution of the sexes of cats on a popular adoption web site and Im seeing roughly a 31 ratio of males to females in orange cats but a very consistent 11 ratio of males to females in black cats. This is because the gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome and like humans females have two Xs and males are XY. The same statistics stand for female.

At least 80 of orange tabby cats are male while only 20 are females since to be one females need two copies of the X chromosomes as opposed to males that only need one chromosome. Female cats possess dual sets of X chromosomes which means they are capable of showing combinations of orange and black -- the colors that are associated with the aforementioned chromosome. This means there are roughly three males to one female ginger cat.