A spotless giraffe was spotted in the wild weeks after one was born at a Tennessee zoo, a conservation organization announced in a news release.
"This is our first one without a pattern," said Bright, who has been the director at the private, family-run zoo for the last two decades.
A reticulated giraffe's spotted pattern typically develops in the womb, so giraffes are usually born with their spots clearly visible, according to Bright. A rare spotless giraffe born at Bright's Zoo is seen in Johnson City, Tenn., on August 22, 2023, in a still image taken from a handout video.Giraffes are facing a "silent extinction," the Giraffe Conservation Foundation said in a press release, saying there are only 117,000 wild giraffes in Africa."That means that there is only one giraffe for every four African [elephants] remaining in the wild.
Before the spotless giraffe in Namibia and at the zoo in Tennessee, the last recorded brown spotless giraffe was at a zoo in Japan in 1972, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.
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