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[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Out of curiosity I read about that Rothschild's giraffe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild%27s_giraffe

Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi was named after the Tring Museum's founder, Walter Rothschild,[2] and is also known as the Baringo giraffe, after the Lake Baringo area of Kenya,[3] or as the Ugandan giraffe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Rothschild,_2nd_Baron_Rothschild

At its largest, Rothschild's collection included 300,000 bird skins, 200,000 birds' eggs, 2,250,000 butterflies and 30,000 beetles, as well as thousands of specimens of mammals, reptiles and fishes. They formed the largest zoological collection ever amassed by a private individual.

Also the guy this giraffe is named after, is the guy the Balfour Declaration was sent to from the British Government, the Declaration that created Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

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At its largest, Rothschild's collection included 300,000 bird skins, 200,000 birds' eggs, 2,250,000 butterflies and 30,000 beetles, as well as thousands of specimens of mammals, reptiles and fishes.

Collecting dead bodies as a hobby? That guy must have been very intact psychologically. Not.

[–]HopeThatHalps 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

intact psychologically

overrated