People have been drawn to stories about exotic animals throughout our history . The further you go back in that account , the less likely those storey were precise . Here is a gorgeous collection of illustrations showing how masses ideate real animals they had only get a line about .
Crocodiles from Liber Floridus (Book of Flowers), an encyclopedia by Lambert, Canon of Saint-Omer between 1090 and 1120.
( viaErik Kwakkel )
Animals from the Rochester Bestiary, c. 1225-1250
A crocodile :
Elephants :
Lions and other brute :
A lion :
A colorful panther :
A crocodile from the Northumberland Bestiary, fol. 49v, mid-1250s
An elephant from the 13th century, by Guillaume le Clerc
An elephant from Italy, c. 1440
( viaBritish Library )
Lions from the Ashmole Bestiary (f.10v), 1511
A whale from Adriaen Coenen’s Visboek (Fish Book), 1560s
( viaKoninklijke Bibliotheek )
An elephant and a giraffe by Noè Bianco, 1568
( viaNYPL Digital Library )
The History of Four-Booted Beasts and Serpents, by Edward Topsell, 1658
A beaver :
A dromedary :
( viaUniversity of Houston Digital Library )
A history of the Earth and animated nature, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1825
A hippo :
seal :
Lions :
( viaBiodiversity Heritage Library )
A striped hyena, by Aloys Zötl, 1831
Gibbons, by Aloys Zötl, 1833
The Hoolock Gibbons, by Aloys Zötl, 1835
The Cheetah, by Aloys Zötl, 1837
A rhinoceros, by Aloys Zötl, 1861
A sea turtle, by Aloys Zötl, 1867
A walrus, by Aloys Zötl, 1879
( viaWikimedia Commons 1–2andBritish Library )
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