Sentence examples for coat patterns from inspiring English sources

Females lack the sharply contrasting coat patterns.

He also studied how swallowtails adapt their coat patterns as camouflage to gain an evolutionary advantage over predators.

Nine subspecies were recognized by coat pattern similarities; however, it was also known that individual coat patterns were unique.

The scientists also discovered a second gene, Edn3, that controls hair color in the cats' coat patterns.

Conservation groups that monitor tiger populations take advantage of this fact, using motion-sensitive camera "traps" to photograph tigers and identify specific ones by their coat patterns.

These primitive elk have smaller bodies and antlers, less striking coat patterns, and a deeper voice than the North American elk.

To try to reconstitute the quagga, an extinct subspecies of zebra, the zebras that most closely resembled it in coat pattern and color were crossbred.

The king cheetah, once thought to be a distinct subspecies, is a Southern African form that has a "blotchy" coat pattern presumably from a rare recessive genetic mutation.

The colour and coat pattern are genetically recessive characteristics; that is, neither feature is apparent in the immediate offspring of a Siamese that is mated with some other breed.

Giraffe (genus Giraffa), any of four species in the genus Giraffa of long-necked, cud-chewing, hoofed mammals of Africa, with long legs and a coat pattern of irregular brown patches on a light background.

Each individual giraffe has a unique coat pattern.