Very interesting page, like a mix of the esoteric study of medieval zoology, folk-mythology and tales of foreign lands.

http://bestiary.ca/index.html

A very interesting site indeed! I especially enjoyed the illustrations. I found the illustration of the Bonnacon making me chuckle because it seemed like something Napoleon Dynamite might come up with :)

Funny site!
Much nicer than the all black-and-white book that one of my former students brought to me to assist me in salvaging a paper I was working on.
I was always most fond of the basilisk, a beast whose smell alone could kill, as could it's look.

Most enlightening, I think, is the insight into a medieval world view these kinds of things bring.
I have heard it argued that the serpent forms on medieval gospels were an attempt to "bind" the devil.
But my student's dusty old book claimed that the belief at the time was that a serpent when killed, would resurrect at the first light of dawn (connection to Christian resurrection!) and might not have had any evil connotations.

I'll bet I just opened a can of worms didn't I?

That's definitely a very interesting site!