#Did you now? White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
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#Did you now? White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf

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In 1868, Charles Darwin wrote in his work, The Variation of Domesticated Animals and Plants: “if white cats have their eyes blue, they are almost always deaf.”

According to the website, Juan Pascal, 56% – 90% of cats with white coat and blue eye colour are deaf from one or both ears. And, if the white cat has a different eye colour for each eye (heterochromia), it will be deaf on the side where it has the blue eye.

The root cause of this deafness is found in the absence of hair cells in the cochlea of these animals.

 

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