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 …..