Greenmansions Bengals

SNOW BENGAL COLOR DIVISIONS

Snow Bengals resemble exotic Snow Leopards, and are the most exotic looking of all Bengals. The Seal Lynx Snow, with its stunning blue eyes, brings to mind visions of the great cat--the endangered Snow Leopard of the austere environment in the mountains of Central Asia. Our little Seal Lynx and Mink Bengals remind us of those beautiful wild cats, and it's with them in mind that we dedicate these pages to the Snow Leopards of the wild.

There are three color classes in the snow category:

Seal Lynx (Traditional) Spotted, or Seal Lynx Marble Tabby
(F3 Greenmansions Serenade)

A Sliver Seal Lynx Spotted Bengal with a very clear coat and delicate pattern:

DGC, Best silver snow bengal TICA 2006-2007,EU.CH (WCF), GlamShine Easy Marmelad of Russicats

The Lynx Bengals' signature is their incredible deep bue eyes due to the inheritance of the albino genes. Their body color is white to cream, and their markings are tan to brown. The tail tip should be black. Extreme contrast of pattern and depth of blue eye color in the Lynx Bengals are very desirable but difficult to obtain traits. (The eye color in these photos has not been enhanced.) (Traditional) Seal brown is a dark brown just like in a Seal Point Siamese. While Seal Lynx kittens may appear very light when born, or even white, ghost spotting will appear in a week or so; however, it isn't unusual to see lynx kittens born with obvious pattern. It sometimes can take several months before final blue eye color develops, which will confirm whether the kitten is a Seal Lynx or Seal Mink.
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Seal Mink (Traditional) Spotted or Marble Tabby
(F4 RW DGC Greenmansions Othello)

Similar coloring as the Lynx Bengal, but ultimately darker markings per the standard; aqua eyes in accordance with the present Bengal Standard for this color class. Excellent depth of color for aqua! The Mink is described as a combination of the Lynx and Sepia Bengal, and also darkens with age. Since Othello is only a year old in this photo, even though he is a Mink, he is not yet as deeply contrasted as Seal Lynx Serenade.

The Seal Silver Mink is very clear coated probably due to the Inhibitor gene itself and this female has beautifully defined markings and contrast.

GC TICA, CH (WCF), Russicats Pearl Twinkle

Seal Sepia Marble and Spotted Tabby Bengals, SBT's

The Seal Sepia is the darkest of the three colors in the color class. The sepia color seems to have been inherited from a Burmese cat that was used early in the making of the Bengal breed, or perhaps another cat that happened to be a carrier. Thank you Pat of OhMyCats for an example of an exquisitely contrasted and patterned sepia male.

LEFT to RIGHT: TGC Bagheera Godiva Ripple, adult (OhMyCats, Okla); and RW QGC CoolSpots Blizzard of Tatsu--at 10 mo. of age (Tatsu Bengals). Thank you for such superb examples of Sepia Bengals! Note the beautiful gold eyes on Blizzard, which is preferred, and his lighter coat which will darken with age.