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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7525291, member: 110350&quot;]In medieval Europe, how many people were there who had actually ever seen a rhino or a hippo, or even an elephant, unless they had traveled outside Europe? It&#039;s not as if they could go see them at the Colosseum, and I don&#039;t think zoos existed beyond some royal menageries. I know that Charlemagne had an elephant named Abul-Abbas, brought back by his diplomat Isaac the Jew as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. But Charlemagne was special![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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