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calico cat: see cat cat, name applied broadly to the carnivorous mammals constituting the family Felidae, and specifically to the domestic cat, Felis catus. The great roaring cats, the lion , tiger , and leopard are anatomically very similar to one another and constitute the ..... Click the link for more information. . calico catIn North America, a blotched or spotted domestic cat, usually predominantly white with red and black patches (a pattern also called tortoiseshell-and-white). Because genetic determination of some coat colours in cats is linked to the sex chromosome, calicoes are almost always female. |
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| If a calico cat could talk, it would probably sound like Bill Murray. In the case of a calico cat, the feline's parents passed on different versions of X chromosome genes related to coat color. One large calico cat in the area seems to be the culprit, but efforts to keep it off the school grounds have failed, he said. |
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