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Re:What Even Is a Number? by ngcc_hk on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:11PM (#19204362)
Kirin is giraffe and upset Confucius as it should not appear in his chaotic time.
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Re:What Even Is a Number? by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:06PM (#19204685)
Some accounts of Kirin, yes, appear quite likely to be giraffes, others are nearly identical to the Western accounts of the monoceros of distant India (one of the original of the unicorn legend) and are almost certainly accounts of rhinoceros.
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