Shaloms white bison Emily gave birth this morning to her first calf, a healthy beautiful brown baby... but why is the baby brown when the mom is white?... because the babies father and his fathers mother was brown. A boy usually retains more of the traits from his mother than his father. When the boy grows up and becomes a dad he then passes his mothers traits on to his offspring, so in other words; this babies grandma on its dads side was brown. Now... if this baby bison is a boy; because his m