And they are not stripes! Look closely and they are elongated spots
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Humans have stripes too you just canβt see them.
"The lines seemed to be present at birth and didn't follow any other known body system such as vessels or nerves. Instead, they create sweeping chest arcs, mountainous shapes across the back, and swirling butt loops."
NGL, a part of me wished they were visible, but I'm afraid we'd just invent new forms of racism.
And cats can see them!
Edit: nice, I got corrected. Actually learned something.
mine are visible, one just has to look closely. none of you are allowed to see tho.
That's how it works for other mammals as well. Your dog has spots? Shave it and it will still have spots.
Hair, believe it or not, does go below the skin slightly!
Cool fact. Next time I get mauled by one Iβll just taunt them by calling them hairy zebras!
uhm, Zebras have hair too
1 hour border Collie had surgery, I saw that where her fur was white, the skin was pink, and where the fur was black, the skin was also black.
Need to confirm. Need to shave orange cat.
A leopard can never change it's spots,
The big tiger will never change it's stripes,
A hound dog will never change his bark,
And you can't make a heel toe the mark.
Fun fact: you know those spots some animals have, like leopards or dalmatians? Humans do not have them.
Saw a great pic of that once, can't remember how it was revealed, under what spectrum or whatever. Anyone?
Blaschko's lines happen mostly in mosaicism, where an embryo is formed by the fusion of two embryos, gets a mutation early in development, or otherwise gets two different genotypes. It can also be caused by X-linked genes. If those genotypes produce different skin colours or react differently to skin diseases, you can see the lines directly.
It looks like any visible form of mosaic disease may present along Blaschko's lines.
If you could figure out what your pattern was, and were the total body tattoo type, it would be cool as fuck to get a full body tattoo of your individual invisible (now visible, I guess) uniquely you skin pattern!

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