Among cat aficionados, gray cats are often called blue. A basic brown ... ancestor with a mackerel tabby pattern, perhaps most similar to the brown tabby color in many domestic cats today.

The coat of the traditional tabby ... color breakage or marking. The "self-color" type centers on the one color of the coat of the cat. Black and white cats are good examples, but the pattern ...

Tyler Jordan, a Canadian PhD student in the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University says tabby cats have what is called an agouti type hair colourization pattern.