Masai giraffe calves are most vulnerable within their first year of life. Their spot patterns are instrumental to their camouflage. These spot patterns have been shown to be heritable via mother-offspring regressions. From image analysis, mother-offspring regressions found four parameters that are heritable: solidity, circularity, centroid size, and the percentage of background area on the torso. These findings have implications for the survival of calves with differing spot pattern types.