Zad Sparam: Vizidagiha i Zadspram (Anthology) (9th)
Kirman-Persia (Zoroastrian Heretic)
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Taken from: ANTHOLOGIE DE ZADSPRAM; EDITION CRITIQUE DU TEXTE PEHLEVI PAR Ph. GIGNOUX ET A. TAFAZZOLI
(In a list of all the animals of the earth;)
(58) Regarding the species of horses, first the arab one, and their leader is the white with yellow ears; in the second place the Persian, and the mule, the donkey, the onager, the hippo, and others.
(59) And (there are) two main camels: from the plain and from the mountain, -has one bump- and has two bumps.
(60) Among the species of ox are the white, mud-colored, red, yellow, black, and dappled, the elk, the buffalo, the camel-ox-leopard (ustur-gaw-palang)(1)(Giraffe) the ox-fish, and others.
Note: ustur-gaw-palang is the correct Persian word for giraffe. It is the combination of the three animals of which the giraffe supposedly was the offspring. The word is also used by: Al Isfahani; Jahiz; Thaalibi; Hassan Bar Bahlul; Al Tusi; Musa ud Damiri; Ibn Bakhtishu; Nuzhatnama; Wasif Shah …..
(1) Other versions: ushtur gaw yalank (palank); shutur-gaw-palank; ustar-gaw-palang; ushturgavpalang; ushtur or shutur-gdw-palank; ushtur kaw-balank; ushtur-gdv-palang ………………
The more used form to write it is: Usturgawpalang: persian name for giraffee; camel-ox-leopard (ustur-gaw-palang). The animal that looks like the cross of these three animals. Palang means: a leopard, a panther a giraffe, a hyena; anything of a motley colour. Ushtur: a camel [two-humped], gaw: cow, ox or bull. This Persian name is repeated among many others: Ibn al-Fakih al Hamadhani (903); Musa Ud-Damiri (d1405); Zad Sparam (9th); Ibn Bakhtishu (1295); Al-Raghib al-Isfahani (1109); Hassan Bar Bahlul (10th); Mohammad ebn Mahmud ebn Ahmad Tusi (1160); Jahiz's Kitab al-Hayawan (869); Tha'alibi (d1038); Ibn Manzur (1290); Al-Saghani (1252); Ibrahim Ibn Wasif Shah al Misri (d1209); Ibn Qutayba (880).