The Blue Giraffe mystery extends far deeper. Together with Mtengeni he observes not just the animal in question but another giraffe with a goat-like beard, only six feet long, a green hippopotamus with pink spots, and a two-headed rhinoceros. Other creatures are so mutated their very survival is threatened, and Mtengeni is concerned about the long-term prospects of the animal population. Establishing camp in the bush, the two are separated when the warden goes out into the night for firewood and Cuff, hearing what he takes for a native woman's scream from another direction, heads off to investigate. He finds the woman, treed
Zarafa (giraffe) for giraffe: "zerafa". Olivier Lebleu, author of the new preface to the second edition (2007) of the French journalist Gabriel Dardaud's book "Une giraffe pour le roi" (the first modern full-length work about France's first giraffe) has taken up the name "Zarafa," as have several other recent authors, including Lebleu himself in his 2006 book "Les Avatars de Zarafa". In addition, the eponymous 2012 French animation film, "Zarafa" uses the name; and even the museum in La Rochelle, where her mounted remains still greet visitors, now refers to her by the name Zarafa. Muhammad Ali Pasha also sent two other