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===Famous real-world Manx cats=== * [[All Ball]], Lipstick, and Smokey, three Manx cats that were companion animals to [[Koko (gorilla)|Koko]], a captive [[gorilla]] renowned for communicating in rudimentary [[American Sign Language]]<ref name="Patterson">{{cite book |title=Koko's Kitten |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0590338129 |url-access=registration |last=Patterson |first=Francine |publisher=Scholastic Press |year=1985 |isbn=0-590-44425-5}}</ref> * Bob, the male subject of ''Bob the Preschool Cat: A Biography of an Urban Manx Cat'' by [[E. Romayne Hertweck]] (2009, {{ISBN|978-1-4327-3555-5}}) * Bonnag, a female Manx, the first of her breed to have her [[Whole genome sequencing|whole genome sequenced]] (in 2016, by the Manx Cat Genome Project, {{crossref|printworthy=y|[[#Manx Cat Genome Project|see above]]}}), and only the second cat of any breed to receive this level of study (the first was an [[Abyssinian cat|Abyssinian]] sequenced by the 99 Lives project in 2014). Bonnag was bred by Zoe Grundey at the Triskele Manx Cats [[cattery]] in [[Douglas, Isle of Man]].<ref name="MCGP Bonnag" /><ref name="MCGP Cats">{{cite web |title=The Cats |first=Rachel |last=Glover |date=November 2015 |work=ManxCatGenome.com |publisher=Manx Cat Genome Project |url=http://www.manxcatgenome.com/the-cats/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003150315/http://www.manxcatgenome.com/the-cats/ |archive-date=3 October 2016 |access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref> * [[Peta (cat)|Peta]], [[Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office]] of the United Kingdom government between 1964 and sometime between 1969 and 1976. <!--Missing the ones associated with several British Prime Ministers, and Walt Disney.-->
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