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Wild Trax Bengal Breed
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There are several colors and patterns
available in the Bengal Breed. Below are examples of
some of the the Bengals we have produced and a brief
description of that color or pattern trait. Please be
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Brown Spotted Bengals
The Brown Spotted Bengal (BST) is the
standard color for Bengals. Sometimes this color
is referred to as "leopard spotted"
or "gold spotted". The background
color can vary from light buff shades, golden
rust colors, all the way to dark shades of browns,
while the spots can also vary in color from
rust, various shades of brown, and all the way
to black. Spots can vary from a single spot,
a spot with a shadow (open rosettes or arrowhead
rosettes), and two toned rosettes (pawprint
rosettes or donut rosettes). The background
color should be a nice clear even color in order
to provide good contrast against the spots or
rosettes. Vivid markings with sharp contrast
of colors is the mark of a show Bengal. The
Bengal's glossy luxurious coat is short with
a thick unusually soft texture. Eye color is
typically a bright green for the Brown Spotted
Bengal.
Brown Spotted Bengals are what we mainly work
with at Wild Trax, striving for nice large donut
rosettes on clear light backgrounds.
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Snow Spotted Bengals
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The Snow Bengal has several color variations
within the snow category. There is the Seal
Mink Snow, Seal Lynx Snow, and Seal Sepia
Snow. Here at Wild Trax we have the Seal
Mink Snow variation. Snow Bengals generally
have the most glitter of all the Bengal colors.
The Mink Snow has a cream colored background
with tan to cocoa brown markings. They will
have aqua (blue-green) to green colored eyes
that will reflect green. The Mink Snows are
born with some color, unlike the Lynx Snow who
are born solid white. Snow markings are light
as kittens but will get darker as they mature.
Mink Snow markings at maturity are generally
darker than the Lynx Snow. We occasionally have
Mink Snow Bengals here at Wild Trax.
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Seal Lynx Point Snows generally
have an ivory background with tan to cocoa brown
spots and markings. They are the lightest colored
of all the snows. They have light blue eyes that
will reflect red. They are born almost pure white
and develop their color and markings as they mature.
Therefore the older they get, the darker their
coats. Generally by 6 months of age their markings
will be fully developed.
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The Sepia Snow has a
cream or light yellowish colored background with
tan to rust brown markings, looking very similar
to the Mink Snow, except they will have gold to
green colored eyes. The Sepia Snows are born with
some color, unlike the Lynx Snow, and their markings
will get darker as they mature. Sepia Snow markings
at maturity are generally darker than the Lynx
Snow.
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Silver Bengals
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Silver Bengals are the
newest color accepted by TICA (in 2004) as an
officially recognized color in the breed. A
Silver Bengal should have a background color
that is silver to whitish, with black markings.
Silver Bengals can be either spotted or marbled.
A small degree of tarnishing (yellowing) is acceptable,
especially along the spine, legs, muzzle and face.
Although the less tarnish there is, the better
the quality. Eye color may be gold, copper, green,
bronze, brown or hazel.
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Marble Bengals
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The Marble Bengal does
not have spots but rather a swirling or marbleized
pattern to it's coat. The swirling and flow of
two contrasting colors is quite dramatic on the
Marble Bengal. The Marble's face and legs will
be marked similar to a spotted bengals, with small
stripes and and spots. The Marble pattern can
occur in any of the Bengal colors. A Tri-Marble
Bengal generally has a mostly dark brown or
black background coat swirled with a lighter color
that can range from cream, to light tan, or goldish
colors. Snow Marbles can come in all the
snow color varieties, such as Seal Lynx Point
and Seal Mink Point. Snow Marble color does take
time to develop, as it does with the Snow Spotted
colors. Their eye color will depend on the type
of color the coat is, with Tri-Marbles having
bright green eyes, Seal Lynx Points having blue
eyes, and Seal Mink Points having aqua to green
eyes.
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