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Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Kitab Al-Hayawan (1160)
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Taken from: The Jewish Quarterly Review 1910
He fell in disgrace by Caliph al-Mansur when he wrote in his "History of Animals", "I saw a quadruped of this species (the giraffe) in the house of the Berbers . (He had seen the giraffe at the court of al-Mansur)
