Orange Cats Male Personality
Roughly 80 of ginger cats are male.
Orange cats male personality. That is just how genetics work. A male orange tabby on the other hand needs only the orange x-linked gene from its mother. While it is a fact that there is a higher ratio of orange tabbies that are male the exact percentage is actually about 80 percent toms to 20 percent queens.
With all of this in mind orange male cats seem to use different mating strategies than cats of different colors. There is a greater sexual dimorphism with orange tabby cats compared to other cat breeds. No not all orange tabby cats are male although at least 80 percent of them are while females only make up about 20 percent of the population.
Orange is an optimistic color. So the fact that more orange tabbies are males could account for why people tend to view them as friendlier than cats of other colors. According to the BBCs Focus Magazine the ginger gene in cats works a little differently compared to humans.
Owners of orange tabby cats say that their cats are more talkative than other cats. Orange cats have a tendency towards a big appetite. According to Goethe in his theories on color psychology orange is warmth and gladness.
Well thats not entirely true. In fact up to 80 percent of orange tabbies are male making orange female cats a bit of a rarity. Orange tabby cats are almost all male.
Scientists say that the orange color of this cat is due to sex-linked genes. There is some evidence that male cats tend to be more outgoing friendly and gregarious than their female counterparts. There do tend to be some differences in personality between male and female british shorthair cats.