There is here a fine giraffe, or camelopard, of an amazing height, stuffed.
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The camelopard has short horns, covered with hair, truncated at the end, and tufted with hair.
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This was not the case with the camelopard that had got loose and fled among the foremost.
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The moustache drawn on the camelopard is said to have been modeled after the moustache of Thomas Glover.
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A milk-white elephant or a camelopard is considered more than a substitute for character, incident, or wit.
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The Greeks called the giraffe a camelopard, describing the animal as possessing a camel's body but wearing a leopard's coat.
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The guanaco, a quadruped allied to the lama and with some resemblance to the camelopard, is found in considerable numbers.
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Some authors have proved the mildness and docility of the camelopard, while others represent it as incapable of being tamed.
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Then she rose with dignity, and walked like a camelopard all down the room on the side opposite to Mr. Oldfield.
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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.
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In 1827, King George IV was ridiculed, riding on his new gift of a giraffe with his mistress, in The Camelopard or a New Hobby.
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Altisidora won the classic by a head from Lord Fitzwilliam's colt Camelopard with Tiger in third. Two days later, Altisidora contested a sweepstakes over the St Leger course and defeated five opponents at odds of 1/4.
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The modern English form developed around 1600 from the French . "Camelopard" is an archaic English name for the giraffe deriving from the Ancient Greek for camel and leopard, referring to its camel-like shape and its leopard-like colouring.
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She was able to claim the Doncaster Club Stakes without having to race as the other runners were withdrawn, allowing the filly to walk over. Later that afternoon she defeated Camelopard again in a four-mile sweepstakes in which she received four pounds from the colt.
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It first appeared in a globe designed by him and produced by Pieter van den Keere. One year later, Jakob Bartsch featured it in his atlas. Johannes Hevelius depicted this constellation in his works which were so influential that it was referred to as Camelopardali Hevelii or abbreviated as Camelopard. Hevel. Part of the constellation was hived off to form the constellation Sciurus Volans, the Flying Squirrel, by William Croswell in 1810.
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As a five-year-old in 1814, Altisidora was unbeaten in four races. At York in August she defeated Camelopard at level weights in a two-mile match race, earning 500 guineas for her owner. Over the same course on the following afternoon she won a sweepstakes in which she defeated Lord Scarborough's five- year-old Catton at weight-for-age. In autumn, Altisidora returned to the Doncaster St Leger meeting, where she had two engagements on 29 September.
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Amongst other extraordinary animals he mentions the camelopard, which was found in the country of the Troglodytae, and the rhinoceros. Material from this book is quoted directly or indirectly by Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), JosephusJosephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XII, Chapter 1, 5-6; Against Apion, Book I, Chapter 22. and other authors. Although Agatharchides' work was superseded by more detailed accounts in the 2nd century AD, Photius found a copy of Erythraean Sea in the 9th century, from which he preserved extensive extracts in his Bibliotheca.
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