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Bonnacon
| Description | An
Asian animal, like a bison, that emits noxious vapors from is rear if
attacked. These vapors can cover 3 acres, and will burn trees in its
path.
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| Features | Has curled
horns that cannot hurt anyone.
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| Also called | Bonacon,
Bonasus
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| Might Actually be | Some type
of Bison.
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| Described by | Pliny- "There
are reports of a wild animal in Paeonia called the bonasus, which has the
mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are
curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is
said that because of this it saves itself by running away, meanwhile emitting
a trail of dung that sometimes covers a distance of as much as
three furlongs (3/8 of a mile), contact with which scorches pursuers like a sort of
fire."
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