There should also be a link to this under Japanese Mythology under "Kirin"

*other notes:

...when discovered in Africa, Giraffe, with there horn-like ossicones and scale-like spots, so much resembled these beasts of legend that the Japanese and Korean still refer to Giraffe as "Kirin"

...an internationally-distributed beer from Japan bears the name and a dipiction of the mythical Kirin

...sometimes refered to as a "dragon-horse" or a "Chinese-unicorn"

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