Did you know that three-color cats are always female?

That's right, cats that are white, black, and a third color - usually orange - are usually actually cats. And the reason involves your DNA!

As with humans, genetics make a big decision about the lives of animals. In the case of cats, it is in the composition on the chromosomes that issues such as the colors and genera of the animals are decided.

Cats are born with two chromosomes - females have two X, and males have an X and a Y, inheriting the X from the mother and the Y from the father, just like us humans.

And what decides the tone of the hair is the X chromosome. So, in the case of males, it's all very simple: what comes in the mother's gene is the color of the pet. For females, if both factors are equal, the result is uniform.

But when the two X chromosomes refer to different colors, the kitten will have both, with varying spots. And, since nature is incredible, the presence of this combination can be found in a variety of shapes, mixtures, shades and body parts.

They can be on the paws, the trunk and even the nose. Cute, no?

And there is more! In addition to standard chromosomal distributions, it is still possible to find in nature a very rare variation: an exception that happens in only one out of every 3, 000 male cats, when there is an atypical formation in which he inherits an extra X chromosome. In that case, the male can be three colors too!