The tail of the giraffe looks like an artificially constructed fly-flapper; and it seems at first incredible that this could have been adapted for its present purpose by successive slight modifications, each better and better fitted, for so trifling an object as to drive away flies;
Jirafaren buztanak artifizialki eginiko euli-uxagailua ematen du; eta lehen ikusian sinestezinezko dirudi, hurrenez hurreneko aldakuntza txiki eta euliak uxatzea bezalako garrantzi kaskarreko zereginerako gero eta egokiagoen bidez, bere egungo helburura moldatu ahal izanak;