"Babe come quick! The new cat color just dropped!"
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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…But there’s officially a new cat color in town: salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice.’ You can see one here.
The pretty black, white, and grey shade—named for a popular snack food in Finland, where this coat color has been making itself known—is thanks to a fur strand that starts off black near the root, but grows whiter and whiter out towards the tip. The coat was first spotted in 2007, and in 2019, it was brought to the attention of a group of cat experts lead by feline geneticist Heidi Anderson.
Since then, the group has been trying to figure out exactly what causes this shade to express itself, and recently, they finally figured it out. A paper on the discovery has been published in the journal Animal Genetics.
salty liquorice
Tell me the researchers are Finnish without telling me they are Finnish.
Salmiakki.
Heck of a name. Sounds more of a cat flavor.
Darn, I was hoping for Vantacat.
Only Anish Kapoor is legally allowed to have Vantacats.
That’s honestly exactly what I was thinking. Maybe it was the silhouette photo that brought it to mind
Cat science is best science.
Want.
Its not defying genetic expectations and these people shouldnt be allowed to make articles with these titles its fraudulent.
meow meow :)