I found this reading very interesting. It is weird how back then like where this reading takes place, in the 1500's they used to see animals that are common today for the first time. They would draw them or describe them and it was hard to imagine that specific animal. It's the same today but, we describe them with actual pictures and sounds. The rhinoceros is a single-horned Indian animal and named Ganda after the Portuguese.
Something else I found interesting was when the Rhino would launch at the elephant. It would bow his head with his horn on top, so when he would reach the elephant he'd bring his head up and that would cut the elephant making it bleed. I find animals amazingly interesting because I feel they are so much like us, they are so smart in ways we don't even think about. This is one reason why I'm excited for this topic. Abrecht Durer's woodcut is very detailed, I love the perspective of the armor like body structure on the rhino.
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