Giraffes in France

Coming back to the giraffes in France:
it wasn't Napoleon, but Charles X Philippe ("le Bien-Aimé", 1757–1836).
And it was only one giraffe, named Zarafa (1825-1845)

Zarifa in muséum d'histoire naturelle de La Rochelle

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They should put Z in there. It's useful at times. I can see why one can do without C or Q, especially C. I'm not sure how many letters the Latvian alphabet actually has because I don't know whether the ones with diacritical marks are counted are separate letters or not. There is no Q, W, X or Y in written Latvian. We do have C but, in reality, it could be replaced by a consonant dipthong in that it is always pronounced 'ts', never 's' or 'k' as in English.

Good going, Vonny and Walter!

Always fascinated by subjects of which I know nothing - living and learning something new just about every day of my life, and always amazed at just how little I do know!

Beautiful photograph, RexRed.

Woo-hoo! Awesome!

Thanks, I'm very glad you liked it.

Just fantastic.

Magnificent creatures!

En France, la girafe naturellemant but l'Orangina ...

Giraffe in the mist

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Love it! What wonderful breakfast companions they would make!

Wow. Some great images on this thread. But this one's in a class by itself.

Unfortunately I do not have a picture - only a story.
Years ago I was on a safari in Africa with my father, Once on the trip we stayed in little huts with strawroofs, The loos were outside and one had to watch for hyenas. Empty the bladder before going to bed!!!
In bed I wondered what kind of insects could fall down from a strawroof. I imagened all kinds of big spiders, little snakes I do not know what.
Far away I could hear a lion. Once an elephant scratched its back on my wall!! At least the huts were well buildt.
Anyway I fell deep asleep under a mosquito net every night.
One morning I woke up to a smacking sound coming from the straw.
I wondered what it could be and was looking up when I all of a sudden saw mouth,followed by a face belonging to a giraffe, who stuck its head thru the roof.
So there we were - staring at one another.

What happened next? Don't leave us in suspense!

It left and left a hole in the roof.

Must have been a great experience. Bet you never forgot the look in it's eyes! Lovely creatures.