Would you consider a giraffe with a shorter neck....
Like this guy?:
(it's an okapi, btw)
Wikipedia writes:
Although the Okapi bears striped markings reminiscent of the zebra, it is most closely related to the giraffe..
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people
-Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
-Carl Sagan