Brindle 1105231 225690139 2008-07-14T22:33:10Z CarsracBot 6929011 robot Adding: [[simple:Brindle]] :''This article concerns animal color. For the village in England, see [[Brindle, Lancashire]]. '''Brindle''' is a [[coat (animal)|coat]] coloring pattern in animals, particularly [[dog]]s, [[cat]]s, [[cattle]], and, rarely, [[horse]]s. It is sometimes described as "tiger striped", although the brindle pattern is more subtle than that of a [[tiger]]'s coat. 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 [[Basenji]]s). 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 (coat colour in dogs)|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. 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.<ref>[http://www.lovasok.hu/index.php?i=6944 Image of brindle horse] (no free images currently available)</ref> <gallery> Image:IMG013biglittledogFX wb.jpg|Light brindle [[Great Dane]] Image:N13958781_34195957_3377.jpg|Dark brindle [[Great Dane]] Image:BostonTerrierBrindleStand w.jpg|Darker brindle and white [[Boston Terrier]] Image:Ravyn french bulldog.jpg|Very dark or seal brindle [[French Bulldog]] Image:Tiger_Brindle.jpg|Tiger and reverse brindle French Bulldogs Image:Bokser pręgowany 756.jpg|Brindle [[Boxer (dog)|Boxer]] Image:Akita Inu brindle portrait.jpg|Brindle [[Akita Inu]], Brindle coloration is less distinct on longer-haired dogs Image:American Bulldog 600.jpg|Spotted brindle [[American Bulldog]] Image:Presa2004-11-28SnowHollow.JPG|[[Presa Canario]] with brown brindle coat Image:Galgo-Espanol.jpg|[[Galgo Español]] with light brindle coat Image:Greyhound brindle standing.jpg|Brindle [[Greyhound]] Image:brindle plott hound.jpg|Brindle [[Plott hound]] Image:Brindle boxer.jpg|Tan brindle [[Boxer]] Image:Bull-Riding2-Szmurlo.jpg|Brindle bull Image:brindle-shihtzu.JPG [[Image:brindle-shihtzu]] </gallery> ==Poetry== The word brindle comes from brindled, originally brinded, from an old Scandinavian word. See [[wikt:brinded|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'. The opening of Act Four, Scene One of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Macbeth]]'' is: :''"Thrice the '''brindled''' cat hath mewed," ...''<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dvn3uent7VcC&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=%22%E2%80%9CThrice+the+brindled+cat+hath+mewed,%E2%80%9D%22+macbeth&source=web&ots=X1vqFF7OOr&sig=k5Zt99ePYuUOU3cnz-4rKLCdC-4 ''Macbeth'' reference]</ref> ==See also== *[[coat (dog)|dog coat]] *[[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commonscat|Brindle dogs}} *[http://members.aol.com/brindlehos/ Brindling in horses] *[http://bowlingsite.mcf.com/Genetics/Brindle.html Genetics of dog brindling] *[http://www.cwcorgi.com/Aragorn/genetics.htm Genetics of brindling in the Corgi] *[http://www.tenset.co.uk/catgen/ Cat coat color genetics] {{Equine coat colors}} [[Category:Horse coat colors]] [[Category:Dog anatomy]] {{dog-stub}} {{mammal-stub}} [[simple:Brindle]] [[sv:Brindle]]