{"collection":"lcr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/lcr/fsca/fsca55.htm","path":"lcr/fsca/fsca55.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/lcr/fsca/fsca55.htm","text":"Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art, by John Vinycomb, [1909]\nThe Giraffe figures a few times in blazon under these names. It is described by old heralds as half camel and half leopard. A curious word-combination was made by the Romans when wishing to find a name for the giraffe. \"It is,\" says Archbishop Trench, \"a creature combining, though with infinitely more grace, yet some of the height and even the proportions of a camel, with the spotted skin of the pard.\" They called it \"camelopardus,\" the camel-panther.\nThere are two heraldic creatures based upon the above which are referred to in heraldic works, viz., the Allocamelus or ass-camel, having the body of the camel conjoined to the head of an ass; and the Camelopardel, which is like the camelopard, but with two long horns curved backwards.","title":"Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art: Other Chimerical Creatures and Heraldic Beasts: The Camelopard, Camel-leopard","type":"page"}