Giraffes

Giraffes are large African hoofed mammals belonging to the genus Giraffa. They are the tallest living terrestrial animals and the largest ruminants on Earth.

Quotes

• There also be many beasts, that be clept orafles. In Arabia, they be clept gerfaunts. That is a beast, pomely or spotted, that is but a little more high than is a steed, but he hath the neck a twenty cubits long; and his croup and his tail is as of an hart; and he may look over a great high house.
  • Mandeville's Travels, Ch. 31