giraffes used to be called cameleopards, because they thought that they were from a camel and a leopard mating.

That actually sounds completely legit if you know nothing about how mating works. They're totally a mash up of a camel and leopard!

What's your daemon for Merlin? I'm super curious. Were any mythical animals involved for the characters? In any other universe, daemons being mythical creatures might indicate a kind of fancifulness from the person but since the Merlin verse actually HAS magical creatures is it more commonplace?