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that “ there are few naturalists who 
not contributed to the vulgar error that, 
, bating and drinking from the ground, the 
is compelled to stretch his fore-legs 
j^^azingly forward. Some even assert that 
obliged to kneel down. Of the four 
'*^als which fell under my observation three 
their food from the ground with com- 
l^^rativ 
all. 
e facility, and one of them was scarcely 
the necessity of moving its fore-legs at 
I should infer that every giraffe in a 
state is enabled to eat or drink from 
\v}j without inconvenience ; and that, 
is difficulty exists in this respect, it 
® effect of habit acquired in the progress 
j^^’aiestication.” 
ichtenstein, however, bears witness to 
oj) gait of the giraffe, with which. 
str encounter, he was particularly 
“ Their flight,” he says, “ was so 
^°'ad all idea extraordinary that, between 
I. 
