Summary: <p>This week we’re going to find out some surprising possible inspirations for the qilin, sometimes called the kirin or the Chinese unicorn, and the phoenix! Strap in, kids. We’re going to do history!</p> <p>A qilin</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-567" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Qilin-at-Ming-Tomb-Entrance-380x240-300x189.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="189"></p> <p>A giraffe</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-568" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/qilin-giraffe.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="254"></p> <p>My beautiful art of tsaidamotherium, both subspecies, with their weird horns:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-562" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Tsaidamotherium-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300"></p> <p>A saiga antelope</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-569" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/bizarre-animal-saiga-antelope-223x300.jpg" alt="" width="223" height="300"></p> <p>A takin</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-570" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sichuan-Takin_Josh-More-300x188.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="188"></p> <p>A bird of paradise:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-563" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Greater-Bird-of-paradise-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198"></p> <p>Another bird of paradise:</p> <p><img class="size-medium wp-image-566" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Wilsonsbop-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300"></p> <p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/04/three-kinds-of-unicorns.html">Dale Drinnon’s Frontiers of Zoology</a> about the qilin</p> <p><a href="http://bestiary.ca/">An online Bestiary</a>. This is where I got the quotes from Herodotus.</p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Beasts-Translation-Bestiary-Twelfth/dp/0486246094">The Book of Beasts, trans. T.H. White</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1936139.The"></a></p>
