Our little watermelon boy is strutting his unique striped coat around his habitat in Elephant Odyssey. The spots and stripes serve as camouflage protection in the dappled light of the tapirs’ forest floor habitat. Calves (unfortunately) begin to lose these markings after a few months, and they resemble miniature adults at about 8 months of age. #strutyourstuff #stripesandspots #endangeredspecies #sandiegozoo