Standard open marble and sheeted also known as fuller marble pattern.
Bengal marble vs spotted.
Bengals also come in marble patterns too.
All marble bengals must have spotted bellies.
Foothill felines likita of fire n ice bengals foreground.
What is a bengal cat.
Their golden shimmer comes from their leopard cat ancestry and their coats may show spots rosettes arrowhead markings or.
In the early 1960s a breeder cross bred a black domestic shorthair cat with a wild female asian leopard cat.
Photo by owner wanda mcdonald here is a little more background information and detail about the marble pattern in the bengal cat which is genetically referred to as a tabby.
Bengals have a wild appearance.
While there are only two patterns under which bengals cats are shown spotted or marble there are descriptive terms used to define the types of pattern seen.
The sparble is considered a spotted rosetted bengal and not a marbled.
Sparbling isn t really an official pattern category but in breeder lingo it is used to describe bengals who possess both rosettes and marble markings or spotted bengals with marble ish patterns.
Whenever people think of a bengal cat they imagine a brown cat with dark brown spots.
Sparbled bengals have a mixture of spots from spotted bengal cats and swirls from marble bengal cat the swirls are often found on the legs or tail of the cat.
We have compiled photos of several different wild cats that help show the patterns and wild look that bengal breeders are working towards in the above photo album.
More recent evidence seems to point to the possibility that glitter is actually an accumulative gene.
The coat color of bengal cats.
Bengal kittens change a lot over their kitten hood and can improve in appearance up till a year old.
Enter the sparble pattern where spots and marble collide.
In the picture below we see various types of rosettes but they all have the similarity of having a dark outline and a brown tone in the inside.
Bengal leopard spotted the leopard spotted nowadays has stricking rosettes known as donut rosettes with high contrast placed on a light cream base coat with rich chestnut tones.
The bengal cat is a domesticated cat breed created from hybrids of domestic cats especially the spotted egyptian mau with the asian leopard cat prionailurus bengalensis the breed name comes from the leopard cat s taxonomic name.
An accumulative gene is a very precious asset to the breeder since if you breed two kitties which are well glittered then the offspring will have.
The resulting f1 generation 50 percent asian leopard cat and 50.
