Cool fact. Next time I get mauled by one I’ll just taunt them by calling them hairy zebras!
You were already mauled by one?
I don’t like to talk about it
And they are not stripes! Look closely and they are elongated spots
Humans have stripes too you just can’t see them.
NGL, a part of me wished they were visible, but I’m afraid we’d just invent new forms of racism.
mine are visible, one just has to look closely. none of you are allowed to see tho.
I have many visible stripes. But that’s just because I’m covered in tattooes from the neck down.
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.
Fun fact: you know those spots some animals have, like leopards or dalmatians? Humans do not have them.
Woah, that’s fascinating!
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.
Well now I don’t know who to trust
Thank you, TIL
Ride the tiger! You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean …
