Elliot’s birthday suit doubled just fine as attire for his coming-out party.
The newborn 85-pound Grevy’s zebra showed off his stripes today as the Denver Zoo hailed its new arrival.
Born June 27 to parents Topaz and Punda, little Elliot is expected to grow to 5 feet tall at his shoulder and weigh 1,000 pounds, the zoo said in a news release.
Elliot is the 15th zebra to be born at the Denver Zoo.
The Grevy’s zebra is an endangered species, with fewer than 2,000 left in their natural habitat of northern Kenya and southeastern Ethiopia.
Grevy’s zebras have longer legs, more narrow stripes, a white belly and large rounded ears, distinguishing them from the other two zebra species — the plains zebra and the mountain zebra.
Elliot was born with brown stripes, which will turn black as he grows older. Zebra stripes are like human fingerprints, the zoo said. No two zebras have identical patterns.
