As the zoological world celebrates the recent birth of a rare, spotless giraffe at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, several skeptics are convinced the newborn mammal’s lack of spots isn’t merely a coincidence — rather, evidence of a potentially animal-kingdom-rocking paternity scandal.


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Though Tony Bright, the zoo’s namesake founder remained tight-lipped on why the baby giraffe, who was born on July 31, lacks her species’ signature spots, instead, deflecting to how “the international coverage of our patternless baby giraffe has created a much-needed spotlight on giraffe conservation,” several redditors have theories behind the giraffe’s unique appearance.



“Daddy giraffe KNEW his wife seemed a little too friendly with that camel ….,” u/Honeyhwhite replied to a thread on r/Damnthatsinteresting.


“Daddy giraffe over there demanding a paternity test, probably…,” commented u/oheyitsarainbow with u/Collinnn7 theorizing on how the calf’s mother likely insisted that she and the horse were “just friends!”


Meanwhile, u/acemccrank took these theories a step further, purporting that no giraffes may have been involved in the calf’s genesis.



“Looks almost like a gazelle and a horse decided to listen to some Barry White over dinner,” they wrote.


So whether the baby giraffe is secretly just a gorse, gadeer, girame, gazorse or just a strange-looking member of its species, one thing is certain — Maury Povich, it’s time to come out of retirement.