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The name "giraffe" has its earliest known origins in the Arabic word zirāfah (زِرَافَةْ), of an ultimately unclear Sub-Saharan African language origin. [2] The Middle English and early Modern English spellings, jarraf and ziraph, derive from the Arabic form-based Spanish and Portuguese girafa. [3]
A rare baby giraffe has no spots, but now she has a name! Officials at the Brights Zoo, a family-owned establishment in Limestone, Tennessee, revealed the adorable, 5-week-old giraffe's name live ...
A rare baby giraffe has no spots, but now she has a name.
A freckled cow that travels westward, whose name is a pun on Horace Greeley. Kuksi Donkey Kuksi: Victor Vashi Main character in a cartoon animal comic. [5] Look-Out Giraffe Boner's Ark: Mort Walker: One of the passengers aboard of Boner's ark. As his name implies, he has to look for land. [6] Het Paard van Sinterklaas Donkey. The Adventures of ...
The giraffe was born on 31 July. The zoo that welcomed a rare spotless giraffe has now been named after weeks of collecting suggestions and votes.. On 31 July, at Brights Zoo in Limestone ...
The Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi [2]), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies of giraffe. It is native to East Africa. The Masai giraffe can be found in central and southern Kenya and in Tanzania. It has distinctive jagged, irregular leaf-like blotches that extend from the ...
Asante, the zoo's almost-2-year-old reticulated giraffe, ... New at Milwaukee County Zoo: A giraffe departs, a new baby name, more. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. In Other News.
Study of the Giraffe Given to Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt (1827) by Nicolas Huet II, also showing the groom who would look after her for eighteen years. Zarafa (January 1824 [a] – 12 January 1845) was a female Nubian giraffe who lived in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris for 18 years.