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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….