Sage1 of the stories I am still working on is the one about lions called Pride Search. My characters so far are these:
Lions:
Anapumua Moto: The first lion to be mentioned in my story. He is very friendly and doesn't have the instinct to kill lion cubs that aren't his own.
Nala: The first lioness to be mentioned in my story. She is also very friendly.
Kanya: Nala's close lion friend. She is also very friendly.
Tau: 1 of Anapumua Moto's sons. He is very friendly. He is that way because the friendliness gene was passed down from both Anapumua Moto and his mother.
Banda: Tau's brother. He is very friendly for the same reason Tau is.
Simba: The first lioness Tau and Banda have in their pride. She is friendly most of the time but she still has a maternal instinct to protect cubs from male lions.
Natasha: The second lioness Tau and Banda have in their pride. She is friendly all the time and she is the first white lioness in my story.
Pemba: A nomadic lioness which Tau and Banda accept into their pride. She was born in the african jungle where in my story, black lions are common. She is a black lioness. She wasn't accepted in her original pride after she turned 2 for some unknown reason.
Leopards:
Bella: The first female leopard in my story. She is Anapumua Moto's friend and often hunts for him.
Moswaio: The second female leopard in my story. She is a friend of Tau and Banda and hunts for them. She also often joins their pride temporarily.
Buddha: The first adult male leopard in my story. He mates with Natasha in the 3rd chapter.
Teepa: The first male leopard cub in my story. He is always sad when he can't play with the lions because he really wants to.
Minana: The first female leopard cub in my story. She too is often sad when she can't play with the lions.
Cheetahs:
Duma: Another one of Anapumua Moto's friends. He navigates Anapumua Moto towards Nala in the first chapter.
Namoja: Duma's mother. She always thinks that friendly relationships with lions will end up bad, even when they don't.
Leopons:
Leo: One of Natasha's offspring. He is always curious.
A leopon is what you get when a male leopard mates with a lioness.
Anyway I was wondering how I should go about the black and white genes and results from the 2 of them together.
Black and white both are recessive in these lions meaning that there has to be at least 2 tawny lions that carry the white or black gene to get black lions or white lions from tawny lions.
But what if you have a lion with both the black gene and the white gene? Should the black dominate over the white making it a black lion with the white gene? Should the white dominate over the black making it a white lion with the black gene. Should they cancel out giving you a tawny lion carrying both the black gene and the white gene? Should they mix completely giving you a gray lion? Should they be in separate areas giving you a bicolor lion(bicolor in cat genetics means white fur and fur of another color like black)?
Any ideas would be nice.
Lions:
Anapumua Moto: The first lion to be mentioned in my story. He is very friendly and doesn't have the instinct to kill lion cubs that aren't his own.
Nala: The first lioness to be mentioned in my story. She is also very friendly.
Kanya: Nala's close lion friend. She is also very friendly.
Tau: 1 of Anapumua Moto's sons. He is very friendly. He is that way because the friendliness gene was passed down from both Anapumua Moto and his mother.
Banda: Tau's brother. He is very friendly for the same reason Tau is.
Simba: The first lioness Tau and Banda have in their pride. She is friendly most of the time but she still has a maternal instinct to protect cubs from male lions.
Natasha: The second lioness Tau and Banda have in their pride. She is friendly all the time and she is the first white lioness in my story.
Pemba: A nomadic lioness which Tau and Banda accept into their pride. She was born in the african jungle where in my story, black lions are common. She is a black lioness. She wasn't accepted in her original pride after she turned 2 for some unknown reason.
Leopards:
Bella: The first female leopard in my story. She is Anapumua Moto's friend and often hunts for him.
Moswaio: The second female leopard in my story. She is a friend of Tau and Banda and hunts for them. She also often joins their pride temporarily.
Buddha: The first adult male leopard in my story. He mates with Natasha in the 3rd chapter.
Teepa: The first male leopard cub in my story. He is always sad when he can't play with the lions because he really wants to.
Minana: The first female leopard cub in my story. She too is often sad when she can't play with the lions.
Cheetahs:
Duma: Another one of Anapumua Moto's friends. He navigates Anapumua Moto towards Nala in the first chapter.
Namoja: Duma's mother. She always thinks that friendly relationships with lions will end up bad, even when they don't.
Leopons:
Leo: One of Natasha's offspring. He is always curious.
A leopon is what you get when a male leopard mates with a lioness.
Anyway I was wondering how I should go about the black and white genes and results from the 2 of them together.
Black and white both are recessive in these lions meaning that there has to be at least 2 tawny lions that carry the white or black gene to get black lions or white lions from tawny lions.
But what if you have a lion with both the black gene and the white gene? Should the black dominate over the white making it a black lion with the white gene? Should the white dominate over the black making it a white lion with the black gene. Should they cancel out giving you a tawny lion carrying both the black gene and the white gene? Should they mix completely giving you a gray lion? Should they be in separate areas giving you a bicolor lion(bicolor in cat genetics means white fur and fur of another color like black)?
Any ideas would be nice.
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