A Giraffe in the Botanic Garden of Pisa (Tuscany, Northern Italy)

The Botanic Garden of Pisa was established in 1543 as a teaching tool and research facility. As with the vast majority its sister institutions, it focuses on plant collections. However, for short time first half XIX century, exhibited living giraffe, cow, calf. Due to transient nature exhibition, could have easily gone unnoticed but fortuitous representation animals drawing same period sparse notes archived libraries University. Furthermore, XIX-century publication morphological behavioural traits three antelopes indirectly suggests that those had been kept purposes. This paper presents evidence animal display context which collected.