Medici giraffe

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What Wikipedia says

The Medici giraffe was a giraffe presented to Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence on November 18, 1487, by al-Ashraf Qaitbay, the Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, in an attempt to win the support of the Medici.

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