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Not until the seventeenth century did the English, who fixated on the giraffe’s camel-ish shape and leopard-ish coloring, stop calling it a camelopard.

One of the most attractive scenes for the Chinamen was a show of models of a great variety of wild animals, comprising almost everything, from a mouse to a camelopard.

The classic term “camelopard,” probably introduced when these animals were brought from North Africa to the Roman amphitheatre, has fallen into complete disuse.

As well try to turn camelopards into crocodiles or pythons into hippos, as convert Africans into Europeans.

They are called “Camel-thorns,” for the reason that the camelopard was fond of browsing upon their foliage.