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When mediaeval people heard about the animals described to live in Africa, they heard about the fabled flightless bird Struthiocamelus and took it a little too literally, sometimes being drawn as a winged camel, but that interruption was quite rare, many depicted the beast a lot more true to life which became even easier as several of these birds were brought to places like Greece for colosseums. A prominent myth about Ostriches was their ability to eat iron, so the first zoos would attempt to feed the birds a diet of iron nails.

Description
When mediaeval people heard about the animals described to live in Africa, they heard about the fabled flightless bird Struthiocamelus and took it a little too literally, sometimes being drawn as a winged camel, but that interruption was quite rare, many depicted the beast a lot more true to life which became even easier as several of these birds were brought to places like Greece for colosseums. A prominent myth about Ostriches was their ability to eat iron, so the first zoos would attempt to feed the birds a diet of iron nails.