The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns.
Marble bengal pattern development.
The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors.
The colors and the patterns.
The goal of each subsequent breeding is to perpetuate desirable traits as much as possible such as a horizontally aligned pattern whether spotted or marbled smaller ears thicker tails with black tips solid bone structure egg shaped heads black paw pads.
While most commonly seen in the brown spotted tabby pattern they may also be found in the marbled pattern classic tabby.
Seal sepia cb cb bengal often exhibits beautiful green or gold eyes.
Although the marble pattern itself is derived from the bengal s domestic ancestors the appearance of the pattern of top bengal marbles needs to be strongly influenced by the wild asian leopard cat s genepool which means the horizontal flow which is especially evident when the cat is stretched.
Bengal coats also come in a marbled pattern.
These markings are 1800 to 2400 range.
Pictured below are photos of one of our black and brown gold marble patterned bengal kitten.
A clouded rosetted bengal kitten development stages.
A tricolored pattern is preferred to a pattern that only displays a single color.
The most common pattern is the spotted and the swirly marble pattern and it is tri colored.
As we all know the very first bengal originated from a cross between the asian leopard cat alc with the domestic shorthair tabby.
The tri color is very unique and each spot is outlined with the darker color.
There are two main patterns present in the fur.
The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl.
You will find this pattern in many shades and the marking of this pattern is very unique.
This is andia s darker clouded rosetted kitten mango in her development stages.
The seal mink cs cb bengal is a bit darker overall than the seal lynx point bengal and will have aqua colored eyes as an adult.
The marbled bengal can come in either the traditional brown colors silver or snow coloring and even in the unrecognized colors.
Seal mink bengals are usually born with a pattern already showing and it will also darken as they mature.
Bengal kittens change a lot over their kitten hood and can improve in appearance up till a year old.
Forrest was only two weeks old in this photo.
The pattern should have no similarity to a bulls eye and the more random the pattern the better.
A seal sepia bengal can be so darkly.
The spotted pattern is the most common but the marble pattern is lovely too.
One or more colors swirled into the background color.
When marble kittens are born they are mainly a solid color with just a few specs of a contrasting color.
A bengals coat can have hairs with an iridescent sheen making it look as if it has been sprinkled with glitter.
Some marble patterns are so broken.
They warm up starting around 6 weeks and can continue to warm up for months.