What color is leopards whiskers?

Answer 1

A tabby cat is a cat with a distinctive coat that features stripes, dots, or swirling patterns.

The tabby pattern is a naturally occurring feature that may be the original coloration of the domestic cat's distant ancestors.

The "Tabby" term means dark markings (stripes, swirls, spots) on a paler background. The stripe colour is solid (goes right to the hair root), but the background colour is banded with colour on each individual hair.

Here are just some of the many colours:

• Blue Tabby - Cream/ivory-blue base, slate blue markings.
• Brown Tabby - Coppery-brown base, black markings.
• Cameo Tabby - Cream base, pale red markings.
• Chocolate Tabby - Ivory/white base, medium-dark brown markings.
• Cream Tabby - Pale cream base, fawn/buff markings.
• Lavender (Lilac) Tabby - Milky cream base, frosty grey markings.
• Red Tabby - Pale red (ginger) base, deep red (ginger) markings.
• Silver Tabby - Silver base, black markings. Silver Tabbies with coloured markings on a silvery background are called Blue Silver, Red Silver (aka Cameo Tabby) etc.

The mackerel tabby pattern has vertical, gently curving stripes on the side of the body. The stripes are narrow, and may be continuous or broken into bars and spots on the flanks and stomach. Often, an 'M' shape appears on the forehead. Mackerels also feature a 'peppered' nose, where black spots appear along the pink tip of the nose. Mackerels are also called 'fishbone tabbies'. Mackerel is the most common tabby pattern.

Classic (or 'blotched') tabbies have a similar 'M' pattern on the head, but the body markings are different, having a whirled and swirled pattern with wider stripes that make what are referred to as "butterfly" patterns on their shoulders, and usually a bullseye or oyster pattern on the flank. The legs and tail are more heavily barred and the pattern is variable with respect to the width of the bands.

The Ticked tabby pattern produces hairs with distinct bands of color on them, breaking up the tabby patterning into an salt-and-pepper appearance. Residual ghost striping or "barring" can often be seen on the lower legs, face and belly and sometimes at the tail tip.

Answer 2

White. All cat's whiskers, with a very few exceptions, are unpigmented, and so show as white.