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Stripes! 🐅

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Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1 hour border Collie had surgery, I saw that where her fur was white, the skin was pink, and where the fur was black, the skin was also black.

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  • mycelium_underground@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And they are not stripes! Look closely and they are elongated spots

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    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My whole life has been a lie!

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Humans have stripes too you just can’t see them.

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    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup: sciencealert.com/humans-actually-have-secret-stri…

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      • Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “The lines seemed to be present at birth and didn’t follow any other known body system such as vessels or nerves. Instead, they create sweeping chest arcs, mountainous shapes across the back, and swirling butt loops.”

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      • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And cats can see them!

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      mine are visible, one just has to look closely. none of you are allowed to see tho.

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      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have many visible stripes. But that’s just because I’m covered in tattooes from the neck down.

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  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you, TIL

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  • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cool fact. Next time I get mauled by one I’ll just taunt them by calling them hairy zebras!

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      uhm, Zebras have hair too

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      • notabot@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I'm not sure that subtle nuances like that are going to affect the way the tiger responds to the taunt...

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      • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But less

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You were already mauled by one?

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      • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t like to talk about it

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Need to confirm. Need to shave orange cat.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As someone who used to give their maine coon a lion’s cut, can verify no stripes.

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      • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My orange boy has had too many vet visits already (he’s a very special boy)

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A leopard can never change it’s spots,

    The big tiger will never change it’s stripes,

    A hound dog will never change his bark,

    And you can’t make a heel toe the mark.

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  • RobinSohn@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Interesting side fact I learned from a podcast: It was Alan Turing who first had a theory about how the stripes are created. phys.org/…/2012-02-alan-turing-1950s-tiger-stripe…

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fun fact: you know those spots some animals have, like leopards or dalmatians? Humans do not have them.

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    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well…

      sciencealert.com/humans-actually-have-secret-stri…

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      • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you could figure out what your pattern was, and were the total body tattoo type, it would be cool as fuck to get a full body tattoo of your individual invisible (now visible, I guess) uniquely you skin pattern!

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Woah, that’s fascinating!

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Saw a great pic of that once, can’t remember how it was revealed, under what spectrum or whatever. Anyone?

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    • BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well now I don’t know who to trust

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