If you recently adopted an orange cat or kitten, congratulations! Orange cats come in a variety of shades, from pale ...

Yellow cats are enormously popular. Their ginger, yellow, and orange fur is believed to go with an equally bright, sunny ...

Speaking of food-related names, I've got another gripe. A lot of food-related orange cat names I've seen suggested online revolve around spices: Pepper, Cinnamon, Saffron, Chili, etc.

In fact, most orange cats are male because they only need one copy of the mutated gene to express the orange coloration. Female cats, however, inherit two X chromosomes—one from each parent.

They found 51 possible variants on the X chromosomes of male orange cats and eliminated 48 of them after finding the genomes in some non-orange cats as well. Of the three remaining variants, a ...

Orange cats are typically male. If you have an orange cat, it's likely that it's a boy. "Over 75% of orange cats are males!" says Dr. Annie Valuska, pet behavior scientist at Purina.

Orange male cats may enjoy greater social status and thus reproductive success in rural locations. Cat owners report that orange cats are friendlier. Source: Hans/Pixabay.

The executive director of SpokAnimal said calico cats that come in to the shelter are always female and the orange cats are always male. KREM set out to verify if this is always the case.

Approximately 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned by the Short Wave team. Scientists have long suspected that orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding ...