The far left is my guess. But on a test, this could be a sucker trick question, the answer being that all Dalmatians have the same number of spots. BTW how come fire companies no longer have Dalmatians as pet mascots I wonder?
All dalmatians are born with no spots. The spots start appearing when the puppy is around 10-14 weeks old, and new ones can continue to appear for its entire life. The number, position, and size of the spots varies for each individual, and, like human fingerprints, no two dogs are identical. Some dalmatians never get any spots at all and remain pure white.
Other animals also have unique patterns for each individual, including the spots on leopards, cheetahs, and giraffes, and the stripes on tigers and zebras.
Yep. The other animals can also sometimes have no patterns - stripeless tigers and zebras, for example. Usually it is due to being either albino or some other genetic mutation, sometimes passed down a family line, although may skip generations. There was even a zebra born in Kenya that had spots rather than stripes.
Such outliers often don't live long in the wild due to not having the camouflage to protect them / hide them from being seen by prey.
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