As it turns out, the emergence and popularization of Zoos during the Victorian era was largely driven by the work conducted at the Royal Institute for Volumetric Measurements in London.
Similarly the expansion of the British empire was mostly driven by the need to find ever larger exotic animals in order to establish comparative volumetric weights for the ever larger ships and constructions of that era.
"25.678 standard volume foxes", was starting to become a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessel's size.
One standard volume giraffe of course, i.e. the volume in m³ an average giraffe would fill (at room temperature and sea level), when passed through a blender.
And then half of that
Am I reading this correctly? The French first lady will submit images of her vulva as court evidence to win a feud with an annoying Internet person?
Interesting times we're living in