A giraffe without spots at a Tennessee zoo may be plain, but she’s definitely not ordinary.
The female reticulated giraffe was born July 31 at the family-owned Brights Zoo in Limestone, a rural community in northeastern Tennessee. David Bright, one of the zoo’s owners, said the plain brown animal is a rarity.
Research found another giraffe that was born without a pattern in Tokyo in 1972 and two others before that.
The spots serve as camouflage for giraffes in the wild. The yet-unnamed baby is healthy and on display at the 41-hectare zoo along with her mother, he said.
A reticulated giraffe born last month
