This article concerns animal color. For the village in England, see Brindle, Lancashire. Brindle is a small village and Civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England.

Brindle is a coat coloring pattern in animals, particularly dogs, cats, cattle, and, rarely, horses. Coat, or the nature and quality of a show Mammal 's Pelage, is important to the Animal fancy in the judging of the animal particularly at conformation The dog ( Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated Subspecies of the gray wolf, a Mammal of the Canidae family of the order WikipediaManual of Style (spelling, articles should conform to one overall spelling style of English typically the one most linked to the article topic (if it is geographic Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated Ungulates a member of the Subfamily Bovinae of the family The horse ( Equus caballus) is a hoofed ( Ungulate) Mammal, one of eight living species of the family Equidae. It is sometimes described as "tiger striped", although the brindle pattern is more subtle than that of a tiger's coat. The tiger ( Panthera tigris) is a member of the Felidae family the largest and the most powerful of the four " Big cats quot in the Genus The streaks of color are usually darker than the base coat, which is often tawny or grayish, although very dark markings can be seen on a coat that is only slightly lighter.

The brindle pattern may also take the place of tan in tricolor coats of some dog breeds (such as Basenjis). The Basenji is a breed of hunting Dog that originated in central Africa. This coloration looks very similar to tricolor, and can only be distinguished at close range. Dogs of this color are often described as "trindle". It can also occur in combination with blue merle in the points, or as a brindle merle, in breeds such as the Cardigan Welsh Corgi, though the latter is not acceptable in the show ring. Merle is a color combination in Dogs €™ coats It is a solid base color (usually red/brown or black with lighter blue/gray or reddish patches which gives a mottled The Cardigan Welsh Corgi (ˈkÉ”rgi is one of two separate Dog breeds known as Welsh Corgis that originated in Wales.

In horses, brindle coloring is extremely rare and may be either caused by or somehow linked to chimerism, resulting in an animal with two sets of DNA, with the brindle pattern being an expression of two different sets of equine coat color genes in one horse. In Zoology, a chimera is an animal that has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different Zygotes if the Deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA) is a Nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known Horses exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings. ^[1]

Light brindle Great Dane	Dark brindle Great Dane	Darker brindle and white Boston Terrier	Very dark or seal brindle French Bulldog
Tiger and reverse brindle French Bulldogs	Brindle Boxer	Brindle Akita Inu, Brindle coloration is less distinct on longer-haired dogs	Spotted brindle American Bulldog
Presa Canario with brown brindle coat	Galgo Español with light brindle coat	Brindle Greyhound	Brindle Plott hound
Tan brindle Boxer	Brindle bull

Contents 1 Poetry 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Poetry

The word brindle comes from brindled, originally brinded, from an old Scandinavian word. The Great Dane, Danish Hound, or German Mastiff, is a breed of Domestic dog ( The Great Dane, Danish Hound, or German Mastiff, is a breed of Domestic dog ( The Boston Terrier is a breed of Dog of the Terrier dog type, originating in the United States of America. Developed in Germany the Boxer is a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired Dog. The Akita Inu or Japanese Akita Inu (Japanese Akita is a Breed of large Dog originating in Japan, named for Akita Prefecture, The American Bulldog is a breed of domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris See Wiktionary. The concept occurs in the opening of 'Pied Beauty' (1877) by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poem about dappled, streaky, subtly-varied Nature, where he compares 'skies of couple-colour' to a 'brinded cow'. Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and

The opening of Act Four, Scene One of William Shakespeare's Macbeth is:

"Thrice the brindled cat hath mewed," . William Shakespeare ( baptised Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare 's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written some time between . . ^[2]

See also

• dog coat
• Gerard Manley Hopkins

References

External links

• Brindling in horses
• Genetics of dog brindling
• Genetics of brindling in the Corgi
• Cat coat color genetics

A Dog 's coat is its Fur. A dog can be double coated &mdashthat is having both a soft undercoat and a coarser topcoat. Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June, 1889) was an English Poet, Roman Catholic convert and

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