User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../The Ships in the Harbor/@comment-1595565-20131218014554

One of Whitebeard's allies had a giraffe figurehead. Animals seem to be common on figureheads of ships used by temporarily relevant deuteragonists (I can give you about 43 examples). I doubt they're anyone we've seen (after Sabo I think Oda can give it a rest for a while).