
This consists of a single color shade on one side of its face or body and an entirely contrasting shade on the remaining half. To put it simply, felines with Chimerism are split-faced cats. This half-face cat’s appearance is the direct result of two or more embryos merging in the womb at the early stages. Thank the heavens that Chimerism in the cat dimension looks nothing like its mythical origins! Instead of meeting face-to-face with a monster, we see a cat with two different faces of contrasting colors. An immortal creature unlike that of our docile two-faced cats. It’s a hybrid creature that combines the lion, goat, and snake altogether. A chimera, according to Greek myth, is a creature that appears monstrous.Ī fire-breathing entity with at least three heads. We get a sense of understanding of the concept of Chimera cats from Greek Mythology. It’s easy to say that animals with Chimerism come from two different individuals but they have been formed from the same source that just genetically diverged. Wait… What is Chimerism?Ĭhimeras are bred from two different original embryos and have become a single organism. So, how did nature perform this miracle? It's amazing how a chimera cat came to be by merging two non-identical twins in the form of two embryos together during the gestation phase. The line that separates both colors is sometimes uncannily straight, which is nature's way of trying to forge two completely different individuals together! How this cat breed came to be The simplest explanation is that a Chimera cat has two faces having one color shade on half of its face and/or body and a different shade on the other half. They are an interesting feline breed with a perfectly symmetrical bi-colored face. Have you ever heard about the Chimera cat? The thought itself sounds like a myth, but here they dwell with us in this world in their own subtle way. A fun fact about modern-day Chimera cats.What is the personality of a Chimera cat?.
