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The first Europeans to see giraffes thought they were too strange to be of this world and so they developed a mythical status. To them, the animal had the gait and disinterested chew of a camel and ...

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- tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa ...