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Fact Checking: Can Ostriches Digest Iron?
Medieval Animal Data Network (blog on Hypotheses.org), 2013
One of the most striking imaginary properties about an animal in the Middle Ages concerns the ostrich's ability to eat and digest iron. The paper presents several experiments which took place both in Islamic and Christian areas, from the tenth to the sixteenth century, trying to check if this legend was true or not, even if the result was the killing of the animal.
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