ANIMALS
-OSTRICH EGG- IN ARABIC, OSTRICH ("NA'AAMA") COMES FROM THE SAME VERBAL ROOT ("NA'AMA" MEANING "FAVOR", "BENEFIT", AND "HAPPINESS") AS THE COLLECTIVE PLURAL FOR "GRAZING ANIMALS" ("NA'AM", ALSO MEANING "YES"!)... IN URDU, FARSI, AND HINDI, OSTRICH IS "SHOTOR MURGH", OR "CAMEL CHICKEN".....EGG IS SYMBOL OF LIFE (IN DESERT), IN HADITH ASSOCIATED WITH MUHAMMAD’S DRINKING CUP, AN ANATOLIAN ARACHNOFUGE, HUNG FROM OTTOMAN MOSQUE CEILINGS TO DRIVE AWAY SPIDERS...or as rain-shedding finial toppers on earthen minarets and spires of mosques in Mali
-TITANOTYLOPUS AND CAMELOPS HESTERNUS, EARLY CAMELOIDS OF N.AMERICA, ANCESTORS OF DROMEDARIES, SKELETONS AT YALE AND LA BREA TAR PITS MUSEUM
-ZARAFA, SUDANESE GIRAFFE GIFT TO CHARLES X OF FRANCE FROM MD.ALI OF EGYPT IN 1827, WALKED TO PARIS FROM MARSEILLE IN 40 DAYS, ORIENTALIST SPECTACLE EN ROUTE, LATER DISPLAYED AT JARDIN DES PLANTES, ITS TAXIDERMY NOW AT LA ROCHELLE MUSEUM
-AKHAL-TEKE HORSE, OF TURKMENISTAN, BRED FROM DESCENDENTS OF MONGOL PONIES, FAMOUS PROBEG “LONG RIDE” IN 1935 TO MOSCOW ASKING STALIN TO REAUTHORIZE PRIVATE BREEDING
-ARABIAN ORYX, ORYX LEUCORYX, NATIVE TO ARABIAN PENINSULA, DECLARED EXTINCT IN THE WILD, THEN SUCCESSFUL REINTRODUCTION, BREEDING, AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS
-ZOOMORPHIC AQUAMANILE- it could be an eagle, a lion, a ram or a peacock, as here from Al Andalus
