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| Keywords: Curious creatures in zoology (15568638285).jpg 262 CURIOUS CREATURES <br> were sixteen feet long the pedal arms about half as <br> long and its body seven feet The French ship Alccton <br> on 3Oth November 1861 between Madeira and Teneriffe <br> slipped a rope with a running knot over an enormous <br> calamary but only brought a portion on board the <br> body breaking off It was estimated at being sixteen <br> to eighteen feet in length without counting its arms <br> The legend of its sinking ships and taking sailors from <br> them is common to many countries even the Chinese <br> and Japanese thus depicting them <br> Olaus Magnus gives us a graphic picture of a huge <br> Polyp thus seizing a sailor and dragging him from <br> his ship in spite of all his efforts to prevent him On <br> next page is a huge calamary shown with a man in <br> its clutches This is both in Gesner and Aldrovandus <br> But this terror to mariners had its master in the Conger <br> eel Gesner who has taken his picture from some de- <br> scription of the World introduces it as a Sea-Serpent ; <br> but Aristotle says that the Congers devour the <br> Polypi which cannot adhere to them on account of the 23575017 76213 32031 Page 262 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/23575017 1890 10 5962/bhl title 32031 Ashton John NameFound Magnus Biodiversity Heritage Library Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus throughout the text Monsters Are Real Animals University of California Libraries archive org bhl page 23575017 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/23575017 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween university of california libraries archive org bhlmonstersrreal Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-19 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15568638285 2015-08-25 20 55 59 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Curious creatures in zoology Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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