How are we being taught about an animal with exotic connotations that has also repeatedly been subject to geopolitical transactions? How do our children incorporate these into their learning experiences to try to get an understanding of the world around them? How does the giraffe act as a political token in a colonial and post-colonial context? How is the exoticised image of an animal shaped by the Western societies we are a part of? And how are these stories being told and retold?