Roc
c. 800 CE – 1600 CEattested
Indian Ocean
- Islamic Folklore
A bird large enough to carry an elephant, reported by sailors around Madagascar. Marco Polo passed the story on; there really were elephant birds there, though flightless.
Known for
- carries elephants
- Indian Ocean sailors
- feeds on shipwrecks
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.