RowanGreen
Well-Known Member
"1. A human eye is not a cat eye, and personal experiences with alleged human albinos are of no interest in this regard."
It was you who posted the link to the Wiki article mainly about human albinoism...
"2. Blue eyes in mammals"
Right, so you are allowed to talk about other mammals but I'm not?
"are a result of a lack (or at least reduction of) eumelanin in the iris."
I've already given a reference for blue eyes in cats being due to a reduction in melanin as in albinos.
"However, in a "true", complete albino,"
Oh right, so now we want to ignore the fact that the first article you refered me to speaks about their being different grades of albinoism? With some of them including a degree of pigment? That is just so inconvenient...
"red eyes are typical, wheras in the various forms of leucism, both blue (more often) and red eyes can be observed."
And the second article you refered me to quite clearly states that leucism does not change eye colour, and that is one of the things that distinguishes it from albinoism. I guess if someone turns up a picture of that fishing cat that clearly shows it having red eyes you are still going to argue for it being leucistic?
"temperature sensitive albinos" is a rather imprecise term."
Feel free to give us a more precise term for what happens with pointed domestic cats, since it certainly looks to me like that fishing cat MIGHT be showing pale pointing.
"3. The residual marking rather indicates that said Fishing cat is rather a leucistic or very high grade hypomelanistic specimen."
So are you agreeing with me now? Quote from your first Wike article: "There are two different forms of albinism; a partial lack of the melanin is known as hypomelanism, or hypomelanosis and the total absence of melanin is known as amelanism or amelanosis." So the cat could be leucistic or albino. Well done! That's really moved the debate along!
"More pics could be useful."
We can agree on that. Though if you can find some references for both blue and red eyes being caused by leucanism then I think that would bring the allocations on half this thread into doubt!
It was you who posted the link to the Wiki article mainly about human albinoism...
"2. Blue eyes in mammals"
Right, so you are allowed to talk about other mammals but I'm not?
"are a result of a lack (or at least reduction of) eumelanin in the iris."
I've already given a reference for blue eyes in cats being due to a reduction in melanin as in albinos.
"However, in a "true", complete albino,"
Oh right, so now we want to ignore the fact that the first article you refered me to speaks about their being different grades of albinoism? With some of them including a degree of pigment? That is just so inconvenient...
"red eyes are typical, wheras in the various forms of leucism, both blue (more often) and red eyes can be observed."
And the second article you refered me to quite clearly states that leucism does not change eye colour, and that is one of the things that distinguishes it from albinoism. I guess if someone turns up a picture of that fishing cat that clearly shows it having red eyes you are still going to argue for it being leucistic?
"temperature sensitive albinos" is a rather imprecise term."
Feel free to give us a more precise term for what happens with pointed domestic cats, since it certainly looks to me like that fishing cat MIGHT be showing pale pointing.
"3. The residual marking rather indicates that said Fishing cat is rather a leucistic or very high grade hypomelanistic specimen."
So are you agreeing with me now? Quote from your first Wike article: "There are two different forms of albinism; a partial lack of the melanin is known as hypomelanism, or hypomelanosis and the total absence of melanin is known as amelanism or amelanosis." So the cat could be leucistic or albino. Well done! That's really moved the debate along!
"More pics could be useful."
We can agree on that. Though if you can find some references for both blue and red eyes being caused by leucanism then I think that would bring the allocations on half this thread into doubt!
