• Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yellows and browns and orange are a lot more related, and whatever color the pre-orange tiger ancestor was, it was almost certainly one of those.

    Natural variation in the coat means some of those tigers were more orange than their peers. This trait was selected for.