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An Englishman, a Frenchman, and a German are each commissioned to produce their own study of giraffes.
The Englishman visits the Congo, mingles with the natives, maybe kills a few, sees a giraffe, and, after a year of galavanting about the plains on safari, publishes his edited journal of the tour, which, though often scientifically inaccurate, is nevertheless loved for its frequent poignancy and profundity.
The Frenchman starts to periodically visit the zoo, studying the giraffes kept there, and after a few months produces a short but convoluted historiographic account of the social discourse surrounding the zoo patron-giraffe relationship.
The German locks himself in the library and, after six months (during which nobody hears from him but his servants who bring him his meals) comes out with the manuscript of The Origin of the Apperception of Giraffes Out of the Self-Fabulation of the Ego
