What Caused the Color Spectrum?
During the evolution process, the felines environment had a big impact on the development of their coat colors and patterns. For example, the leopards famous spots serve the purpose of camouflaging them from their prey in the plains of Africa: their pale spotted coats blend in with the dried grasses to render them nearly invisible. Striped tabby patterns serve a similar purpose and are still seen in the African Wild Cat. The domestication of the cat and resulting spread of the population to other areas of the world determined the colors and patterns that popped up in future generations of cats. For example, tabbies didnt need the camouflage of stripes in an urban area, and through generations, would develop different colored coats that were better adapted to their surroundings. Black and white cats became more dominant in cities and towns, as their coats provided a better disguise. The tabby color variation remained in cats that needed the cover of the forests and grasslands of rural a
