Antiquity. ' Fiziologus, or Bestiarus '

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However, then there was an unusual product on zoology: ' Fiziologus, or Bestiarus ' (with Latin bestia - a wild animal, a monster). There are no data who was the author of this surprising meeting of stories about animals. The book used huge popularity. However, along with the present animals, in it it was told about such which anybody never saw: there are there dragons, fantastic birds, the winged horses, enormous ants with a head of the lion, terrifying snakes with a cock head and other frights.

Among general ignorance and absence of inquisitive minds the people came across, however, wishing to investigate each fact before it is definitive in it to believe. Fridrih of II Gogenshtaufen (1194-1250), the emperor of Sacred Roman empire was one of such rare exceptions. He has invited to the court yard of many scientists, has collected Aristotle's translated with Greek on the Latin all products, and tried to use scientific methods in researches of natural phenomena.

In the work devoted to a falconry, it has given the detailed description of anatomy and habits of these birds, being based only on own careful supervision that for its epoch was extraordinary boldness.