Marble Bengal Pattern Development

Bengal coats also come in a marbled pattern.

Marble bengal pattern development.

The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. The seal mink cs cb bengal is a bit darker overall than the seal lynx point bengal and will have aqua colored eyes as an adult. Seal mink bengals are usually born with a pattern already showing and it will also darken as they mature. They warm up starting around 6 weeks and can continue to warm up for months.

One or more colors swirled into the background color. The marbled bengal can come in either the traditional brown colors silver or snow coloring and even in the unrecognized colors. The tri color is very unique and each spot is outlined with the darker color. The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl.

The most common pattern is the spotted and the swirly marble pattern and it is tri colored. A seal sepia bengal can be so darkly. You will find this pattern in many shades and the marking of this pattern is very unique. Some marble patterns are so broken.

While most commonly seen in the brown spotted tabby pattern they may also be found in the marbled pattern classic tabby. The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors. These markings are 1800 to 2400 range. A bengals coat can have hairs with an iridescent sheen making it look as if it has been sprinkled with glitter.

Bengal kittens change a lot over their kitten hood and can improve in appearance up till a year old. The pattern should have no similarity to a bulls eye and the more random the pattern the better. A tricolored pattern is preferred to a pattern that only displays a single color. This is andia s darker clouded rosetted kitten mango in her development stages.

As we all know the very first bengal originated from a cross between the asian leopard cat alc with the domestic shorthair tabby. Pictured below are photos of one of our black and brown gold marble patterned bengal kitten. His name is forrest. The spotted pattern is the most common but the marble pattern is lovely too.

Standard open marble and sheeted also known as fuller marble pattern. The goal of each subsequent breeding is to perpetuate desirable traits as much as possible such as a horizontally aligned pattern whether spotted or marbled smaller ears thicker tails with black tips solid bone structure egg shaped heads black paw pads. There are two main patterns present in the fur. When marble kittens are born they are mainly a solid color with just a few specs of a contrasting color.

Some brown bengal kittens are shades of gray when they are born. The colors and the patterns. Although the marble pattern itself is derived from the bengal s domestic ancestors the appearance of the pattern of top bengal marbles needs to be strongly influenced by the wild asian leopard cat s genepool which means the horizontal flow which is especially evident when the cat is stretched.