Obscure factoid of the day. In cats, there are about four different
hair colour patterns which are classified as "tabby". The two most common
are the mackerel tabby and the classic tabby. The mackerel tabby is actually
the genetically dominant one (breed a mackerel tabby with a classic tabby
and you get mostly mackerel tabby kittens), but the classic tabby is much more
common in most of the world. Why is this so? This is an artefact of the
British Empire. Classic tabbies were more common on the British Isles for
some reason, and when the Poms went to America, Australia, India and everywhere
else, took their cats with them; and so, a breed of cats colonised much of
the world. Isn't history fascinating?
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