Cats
cm (12 inches) with a few exceptional specimens having 35 cm (14 inch) tails
There are various mutations affecting the tail and in 1940 American zoologist Ida Mellen
wrote of oddities in cats' tails including kinked, bobbed, curled and even double tails. Curly
tailed cats were known in China in the 12th Century (probably bobtails) and ringtail cats were
known in the USA sometime prior to 1940. In 1868, Darwin wrote in The Variation of
Animals and Plants Under Domestication "Thropughout an immense area, namely the
Malayan archipelago, Siam, Pegu, and Burmah, all the cats have truncated tails about half the
proper length, often with a sort of knot at the end."
Tailless and cats have occurred periodically through random mutation. They have been
reported in Bosnia, Burma, China, Crimea, Java, Malaya, Denmark, Nova Scotia and
Thailand though some of these will have been bobtails. Bobtail cats occur throughout Asia
and into Russia, with more recent mutations occurring in the USA
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