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Jaspa is a Ses. A Giraffeses, to be precise. Which means he’s very distantly related to giraffes.
When most people think of giraffes, words like tall or long or elegant or graceful spring into their minds. Jaspa is none of these things. Actually, a friend of his once called him dumpy, although this was perhaps a bit mean.
Truthfully though, Jaspa is quite short. And he doesn’t even have a giraffe’s trademark long neck or legs. In fact, he could comfortably sit in the palm of your hand.
If creatures like elves, gnomes, leprechauns and so on actually existed (which they don’t, of course), the Ses would be their animal equivalents. But there’s nothing cutesy or magical about the Ses. They’re just small creatures, trying to get by in our world.
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Jaspa was born on the Serengeti Plains, in the part of East Africa we humans call Tanzania. More specifically, he grew up at a place known as the Shifting Sands, in the southeast corner of the Serengeti, close to the Oldupai Gorge.
Hummm! This is where things get a little complicated.
Without giving too much away, in the books Jaspa ends up relocating to Edinburgh, Scotland.
In reality, you could say Jaspa actually lives in a small village in southern Ontario, Canada, with Rich and his wife, Sue.
