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NATURAL HISTORY. 



Sub -family b. Camel 'opardina. 

 CAMELOPARDALIS. (Gr. K//J7/lor, a camel ; 7ruorJa/hc, a pard.) 



GirafFa (Arabic, Zarapha), the Giraffe. 



known, as although in play the Giraffe -will swing its head 

 round and strike with it, yet when it wishes to repel an assail- 

 ant it has recourse to violent and rapid kieks from its hind-lops. 

 So light and swift are these kicks that the eye can scarcely 

 follow them, and so powerful are they that the lion is not mi- 

 frequently driven off by them. Vaillant relates that a Girafle 

 which he was hunting, kept off his pack of dogs by its rapid 

 kicks. Indeed, if it were to venture its head too near the lion, 

 a blow from his tremendous paw would in all probability lay 

 the animal prostrate. 



The Giraffe has much difficulty in reaching the ground 



