Orange Cats Male Female Ratio

Approximately 20 percent of orange tabby cats are female.

Orange cats male female ratio. About 81 percent of orange cats are male says Bell. Most orange tabbies are males and they tend to have a nice character. The ginger gene which produces the orange colour is on the X chromosome.

In fact there are 80 males to every 20 females. Morris the famous Nine Lives cat food mascot was a typical male ginger cat and most though not all gingers encountered in homes. While it is a fact that there is a higher ratio of orange tabbies that are male the exact percentage is actually about 80 percent toms to 20 percent queens.

The reason for this comes down to the genetic makeup of orange tabby cats. We bet you didnt know that there are far more male orange tabby cats than there are females. As with humans female cats have paired sex chromosomes XX and male cats have XY sex chromosomes.

The female cat therefore can have the orange mutant gene on one X chromosome and the gene for a black coat on the other. Well thats not entirely true. If black and orange are co-dominant on the X-chromosome shouldnt the ratio be the same for orange cats as for black cats.

Total population of Orange County California is estimated at 3145515 people with 1553309 male and 1592206 female. At least 80 of orange tabby cats are male while only 20 are females since to be one females need two copies of the X chromosomes as opposed to males that only need one chromosome. An owner of a cat is thinking of mating her black female cat with an orange male.

This is because the gene that codes for orange fur is on the X chromosome and like humans females have two Xs and males are XY. Since females have two Xs and males have one X and one Y this means that a female orange cat must inherit two orange genes one from each parent whereas a male only needs one which he gets from his mother. The gene that determines orange fur is on the X chromosome so both male and female Calico can be black or orange.