What are some of the most alien looking animals out there? I'd say giraffes are pretty weird compared to other mammals. If you showed a picture of a giraffe to someone who's never heard of them before, they'd probably think that they're a fictional alien species from Star Trek or something.
>The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent
>>5100386moonfish platypus narwhal all the animals from the deep sea
Saiga.Also, giraffes when first encountered by the Chinese, were thought to be qilin/kirin.
>>5100407>platypusSupposedly the first taxidermy that was sent was assumed to be a hoax, like they thought somebody glued a duck beak to a beaver.
>>5100411lotta snoot on that thing
>>5100386Rusingoryx Hadrosaur like hartebeest from Pleistocene Africa
>>5100411>The legendary image of the qilin became associated with the image of the giraffe in the Ming dynasty.[11][12] The identification of the qilin with giraffes began after Zheng He's 15th-century voyage to East Africa (landing, among other places, Ma-lin (麻林): Malindi (in modern-day Kenya).). While The Ming Dynasty according to Ma Huan, the interpreter who accompanied Zheng He, notes the products of Mogadishu and Barawa, modern-day Somalia (including ivory, ambergris, and camels), he specifically credits Malindi as the source of the qilin (giraffe). His account solidifies the geographic identification.[13] Zheng He's fleet brought back two giraffes to Nanjing. The official court chronicles record the arrival of the giraffe in 1414 (the 12th year of the Yongle Emperor's reign) and they were mistaken by the emperor for the mythical creature. Somalia (Mogadishu) also sent a giraffe, but later and with less fanfare. The records indicate that Mogadishu also sent a giraffe as tribute, but in a later voyage (1415-1417). This giraffe did not capture the court's imagination in the same way as the first one from Malindi, which had already been successfully identified with the mythical qilin. The identification of qilin with giraffes has had a lasting influence: even today, the same word is used for the mythical animal and the giraffe in both Korean and Japanese.[14]Neat.
>>5100386*is attainably freaky in your path*
>>5100524What exactly is hadrosaur-like about this?
>>5100529It had a domed skull akin to lambeosaurine hadrosaurs (such as Parasaurolophus) that allowed it to amplify its calls. The domed part was hollow like resonating chamber.
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>>5100802Fun fact, this causes so much strength loss that if you take those rings out she can't hold her head up.
>>5100637Interesting
>>5100961Worth it for the deep throats tho
>>5100411>Every other cool Pleistocene megafauna goes extinct aside from this retarded looking flappy nosed jew deerFuck this gay timeline
>>5100411Doesn't kirin literally translate to giraffe in Japanese
