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Ibrahim bin Mohammed al Bayhaqi: al Mahasin Wa-l-masawi

(Beauties and Disadvantages) (d932)

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Taken from alwaraq

 

They claimed that in the land of Abyssinia, hyenas mate with the camel, the hybrid;  the creation of camel and hyena, If it is a female and mates with a wild bull, the offspring will become a giraffe, and is called in Farsi (Persian): aishtar-Kaw-bilank (1), which came out of the camel, bull, and hyena. And the people have denied that the female giraffe is impregnated by the male giraffe.

 

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(1) This crossbread with variations 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);