I was browsing through Facebook and found a picture of this chimera cat. The cat appeared to be a mix of solid black and tabby - complete with heterochromia (one blue eye and one green eye). Its so perfect that one would think it’s photoshop.
Venus has her own Facebook page ("The Amazing Chimera Cat") on which her owner provides Venus' back story:
Venus the cat has been in the news. She has heterochromia – that is, her two eyes are different colours – as well as a perfectly placed black splodge (technical term), which makes her look like Popular Batman Villain Two-Face.
Why is she like that? One possibility is that she is a chimera. This term, taken from the mythical monster with the heads of a goat, lion and snake, refers to a real – albeit relatively rare – condition where two genetically distinct embryos merge in the womb.
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