tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post6539215716731988727..comments2024-03-22T21:58:18.933+00:00Comments on ShukerNature: PERUSING THE PEGASI – PLINY'S HORSE-HEADED MYSTERY BIRDSAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15628598508836601012noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-3292192636060219002014-05-21T02:20:53.254+01:002014-05-21T02:20:53.254+01:00I appreciate that early chroniclers probably would...I appreciate that early chroniclers probably wouldn't know what a shoebill was, but what I am saying is that I don't think anyone seeing a shoebill would describe it as being horse-headed, and I feel that anyone seeing it would specifically refer to it having a huge beak.<br />Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-26496729310504118262014-05-21T00:02:28.444+01:002014-05-21T00:02:28.444+01:00Anyone not familiar with a shoe-billed stork would...Anyone not familiar with a shoe-billed stork would not know what it was. Early chroniclers would not likely know what they were looking at. Later ones might, but might not realize earlier writers wrote about them as pegasii. <br /><br />Much like early Greeks might not recognize elephant fossils as elephants but later Greeks would recognize them. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09127945598591929729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-26387100591061787352014-05-13T03:27:06.959+01:002014-05-13T03:27:06.959+01:00The shoebill's beak is so enormous and ostenta...The shoebill's beak is so enormous and ostentatious, I feel sure that it would have been specifically alluded to by pegasi chroniclers if this species were the latter's identity. Also, I'm afraid that I can't see any resemblance to a horse's head with the shoebill's head.Dr Karl Shukerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222845702628862829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-48045081299169486022014-05-13T02:56:28.534+01:002014-05-13T02:56:28.534+01:00What about the shoe-billed stork? http://www.bing....What about the shoe-billed stork? http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=shoebill+stork&qpvt=shoebill+stork&FORM=IGRE<br /><br />The face is rather horsish to me and was the first thing I thought of. They are from Africa as well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09127945598591929729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739684561063978507.post-33547046682817133902014-05-12T07:31:00.403+01:002014-05-12T07:31:00.403+01:00I'm pleased to see the hippalectryon getting a...I'm pleased to see the hippalectryon getting a little attention. Long has he languished in the shadow of the more famous pegasus. No doubt, he once had he own legend. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05990564432778690216noreply@blogger.com