Think Think and Ah Tsai are two cats belonging to the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen. Think Think is a female gray tabby, while Ah Tsai is a male ginger tabby.
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Image: 04.12 總統觀賞中華職棒比賽 Tsai Ing Wen watching baseball with Ah Tsai
Think Think
Ah Tsai
A tabby cat, or simply tabby, is any domestic cat with a distinctive M-shaped marking on their forehead, stripes by their eyes and across their cheeks, along their back, around their legs and tail, and characteristic striped, dotted, lined, flecked, banded, or swirled patterns on the body: neck, shoulders, sides, flanks, chest, and abdomen. The four known distinct patterns, each having a sound genetic explanation, are the mackerel, classic or blotched, ticked, and spotted tabby patterns.
Mackerel tabby, with the distinctive striped pattern and forehead 'M'.
A European wildcat (Felis silvestris) bearing a similar coat pattern to that of a tabby cat. It is thought that the tabby pattern originates from the numerous related species of wildcat.
A 19th-century drawing of a tabby cat
Typical tabby patterns in the head region: An 'M' on the forehead, bright eye rims and borders of the ears