Talk:Tabby cat

Roman mosaic

• is it worth noting that a Roman mosaic portrays a tabby that has caught a bird? In the Spanish language, tabbies are called 'roman cats' BV 25.4.10

11:13, 25 April 2010 86.30.84.28 11:13, 25 April 2010

Signing for archive bot. Traumnovelle (talk) 20:54, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

article vandalised by Asher 196

I noticed the article has been constantly vandalised by Asher196 who inserts the Bombay Cat as an example of tabby patern (the breed is in fact solid black) and writes that torbie effect affects all colours on three- or bi-coloured cats when in reality the white never has any pattern.

Signing for archive bot. Traumnovelle (talk) 20:54, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

"80% male"

Many articles state as common knowledge that 80% of orange tabbies are male, but I can't find anything that seems serious enough for Wikipedia. Would be interesting if true, and if not, worth mentioning here as debunked 209.128.31.98 (talk) 16:24, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

It is already in the article and sourced to a journal article. Traumnovelle (talk) 18:58, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

If the proportion of the orange gene in a given pool is z, among N male and N female cats you should expect:

• $zN$ orange males
• $(1-z)N$ non-orange males
• $z^{2}N$ orange females
• $2z(1-z)N$ calico or tortoiseshell females
• $(1-z)^{2}N$ non-orange females

If $0<z<1$, there are more orange males than orange females, but also more non-orange males than non-orange females.

The 80% assertion is equivalent to: $z=4z^{2}$, whence $z=1/4$. But I would expect z, like the distribution of any other trait, to vary widely by locality. —Tamfang (talk) 00:04, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

oyster

Do I remember right that the classic tabby is also called oyster tabby? I wonder where I picked that up. —Tamfang (talk) 23:33, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Oyster tabby appears to be a type of concrete. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:51, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

ah: tabby concrete —Tamfang (talk) 05:37, 9 September 2025 (UTC)