fur patterns
Animal pelt markings
Fur patterns are the natural arrangements of color, texture, and markings in an animal's coat.
Common patterns include spots, stripes, patches, and gradients—each with specific names in breeding contexts: tabby patterns in cats, brindle in dogs, pinto in horses.
The kitten's fur pattern suggested a tabby father.
Fur patterns serve purposes from camouflage to species recognition.
- stripesParallel linear markings
- spotsDetects or marks
- spotted coatAnimal covering with dots
- tabbyPatterned domestic cat
- calicoPatchy-coated cat type
brindle · marbled · rosettes · tortoiseshell · tuxedo cat · piebald · dappled · mottled · ticked · merle · coat · fur markings · markings · camouflage · wild type · leopard · snow leopard · tiger
- cat traitssilky coat, coat, claws, long-haired, short-haired
- Fractalsfractal, fractals, self-similar, Hausdorff dimension, recursion
- heraldrycoat of arms, coats of arms, crest, crests, arms
- Furry Fandomfursona, fursuit, anthro, paws, tail