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A new colour of cat has been discovered (www.sciencefocus.com)

submitted 7 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn, toner is running out

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Considering that this mutation seems to be caused by a chunk of missing DNA, as the article suggests, that's actually quite fitting.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“Well, Aktually…. You’re right…..”

Basically how I read that.

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well you read it wrong. I made it more verbose, and I hope it helps:

"Your humorous observation that the cat superficially resembles a printout from a laser printer that is running out of toner is actually quite an apt metaphor for what is going on genetically."