Rosette (fur)
A rosette is the determining element of some fur drawings in biology . It consists of an approximately circular arrangement of brown-black spots, the center of which is slightly darker than the basic coat color. Many of these rosettes are placed next to each other on a skin drawn in this way.
With the exception of a few types of seals , unsymmetrical markings of spots occur in fur animals only in domestic animals, not in the wild. Leopard , jaguar or ocelot have rosette-like spots, the right side is always approximately the same or at least similar to the left side. The tiger cat species ( southern and northern ) also have rosettes, similar to the ocelot. However, the name tiger cat is misleading, the tiger has vertical stripes that are only partially shaped as elliptical spots.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Without an author's name: Do you already know…. In: The fur industry. Publishing house “Die Pelzwirtschaft”, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, October 1949.