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You could be mistaken for thinking that somebody has been playing around
with make-up. But Venus the cat is actually real, despite her striking
appearance. The five-year-old tabby has taken the Internet by storm thanks to
her unique face, which is black on one side and orange on the other. Her eyes
are different too - her black side has a yellow one while her orange side has a
blue one.
你可能会误认为有人通过给它化妆来开玩笑。但这只叫“维纳斯”的猫的的确确是真的，即使她有着让人印象深刻的长相。这只5岁大的斑猫由于独特的外表(她的脸一半是黑色的，一半是黄色的)，在网络上掀起一阵风暴。她眼睛的颜色也不一样——黑色那边的眼睛是黄色的，而黄色那边的眼睛是蓝色的。
Venus boasts 913,000 likes on her Facebook page, is featured in dozens of
YouTube videos and even has her own website selling Venus-related
merchandise。She has also appeared in National Geographic magazine and starred on
numerous US TV shows.
维纳斯的脸书主页上收获了91万3000个赞，她在Youtube上还有数十个视频，甚至还有自己的网站，专门售卖Venus的周边产品。她已经登上了国家地理杂志，还上过好多美国电视节目。
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Venus's owners Christina and Chris got her from a dairy farm in North
Carolina in 2009, where she was a stray. They fell in love with her at first
sight because she looked like a mixture of their other two cats, an orange tabby
and a black tuxedo. They brought Venus to the home and were astonished that the
line down her face was so distinct. Even her whiskers were white on one side and
black on the other.
维纳斯的主人克里斯蒂娜和克里斯2009年时在北加利福尼亚的一个农场里发现了迷路的她。他们第一眼就喜欢上了维纳斯，因为她看起来就像他们另外两只猫咪的合体：一只是黄色的斑猫，另一只是黑色的燕尾服猫。他们把维纳斯带回家，被她脸上分明的线条惊到了。就连她的腮须都是一边白一边黑。
Leslie Lyons, a professor at the University of California, has said that
Venus is ‘extremely, extremely rare’, but her appearance could be explained. The
professor said she would like to carry out DNA testing with samples of skin from
both sides of the cat. If her theory is right then Venus will have different
DNA. Other geneticists have speculated that Venus was the product of two
embryos.
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发表于 2016-7-10 18:33:48
