Set (deity) or a fennec fox. The animal has a curved snout, long rectangular ears, a thin forked tail and canine body, with sprouted fur tufts in an inverted arrow shape; sometimes, Set is depicted as a human with the distinctive head. Some early Egyptologists proposed that it was a stylised representation of the giraffe, owing to the large flat-topped "horns" which correspond to a giraffe's ossicones. The Egyptians themselves, however, made a distinction between the giraffe and the Set animal. During the Late Period, Set is depicted as a donkey or as having a donkey's head. The earliest representations of what
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