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camelopard

The medieval name for an ordinary giraffe was a camelopard. It was a widely held belief that crosses between animals existed, just as the mule existed and was a cross between a horse and a donkey. The camel and the leopard were well known animals at that time and it is likely that a crusader in the east saw an unknown animal and either he accounted for it this way or it was theorized far away at home, that the giraffe was the creature that was begotten by a leopard and a camel. The scarcity of these animals was further explained by the knowledge that such hybrids, like the mule, cannot reproduce. The camelopardel is like a camelopard with the addition of two long horns curved backwards.

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