I thought this seemed familiar; it's a rehash of a 2024 discovery: https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-behind-orange-f...

The article says there's no evidence of the gene being responsible for behavior.

Which means it's inconclusive if the gene is responsible for behavior.

But, collectively we know it may be.

Orange cat has no secret because orange cat has no thought.

Wait, do people in the US really call them "orange cats" - I just thought that was a reddit / internet thing.

In the UK these are ginger cats.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OneOrangeBraincell/ I think it is relevant.

Fun fact: people with red hair have more fear for dentists:

https://www.dentistryiq.com/dentistry/article/55260898/redhe...

It's extremely interesting that the genes that regulate this are non-protein coding. More light shed on the actual functionality of "junk" DNA, even if it's for cats.

Still no way to track the one neuron that they all share.

I wonder why there's no even a trace of "orange cats are goofy" stereotype in Russia and neighboring countries, as far as I know.

So in the US, they call them orange cats. In Korea, we call them 'cheese tabbies' or 'cheese nyang(kitten).' Someday, when I leave this place, I'd like to get a cat. I really like the ones with broad faces. But right now, I can barely even take care of myself

Missed headline opportunity: "60-year orange cat itch finally scratched"

They finally proved that the brain cells of all orange cats are a single brain cell in a quantum state of superposition between all of them? Erwin Schrödinger would be proud.

Do orange cats know they’re orange?

“ Arhgap36 is known to cause developmental problems in other animals when it is over- or under-functioning. But it seems that in orange cats, the gene is overexpressed only in developing and mature pigment cells called melanocytes.”

This doesn’t make sense… if thousands of anecdotal reports in cats specifically report otherwise? And if it’s known to not be limited to melanocytes in other mammalian species?

Now we need a paper about how black cats are secretly red and tabby.

(and you can see it on them in bright sunshine, perfect black cats are not, they exhibit both stripes and reddishness)

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60 years of dissecting fluffy orange kittens is a lot of fluffy orange kittens. =(