Author: Jennifer Leman / Source: Science News for Students The mottled patterns that adorn Africa’s tallest creatures are passed down from their mothers, a new study suggests. A giraffe inherits spots that are similar to those of its mother in two ways. These are the roundness and the smoothness

This stunning giraffe has not been photoshopped, she’s real! Omo, the 15-month-old beauty whose skin looks as if it was bleached, is suffering from leucism. It’s a condition that results in a partial loss of pigmentation. She was spotted in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania by Dr Derek Lee,