Abu al Qasim al Suhayli: al-Raud al-Unuf;
(A Biography of the Prophet) (d1185).
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Taken from: alwaraq
And he said: And the country of the giraffe, which is walking mostly alone,
The giraffe: Everybody said that the giraffe is a long neck animal:
It gets offspring by mixing from the wild camels, the wild cow and the ostrich, and they are born of these three races (this according to) Al-Zubaidi and others, and Al-Jahiz who denied this in his animal book, and he said: This mistake entered from the name of the Persians: ashtar kaw mah.
And the Persians called it so because of the resemblance created by camel ostrich and a cow….