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この神話のもう一つの起源は、16世紀までに絶滅したマダガスカルの鳥、アエピオルニス象鳥の卵であり、この鳥は高さ3メートルで飛べない巨大な鳥であったとされる点である<ref>The Eighth Continent , https://archive.org/details/eighthcontinent00pete , registration , Tyson, Peter , 2000 , New York , 138–139</ref>。少なくとも民間の記憶では、1658年にエティエンヌ・ド・フラクールが書いたように、ゾウドリが目撃されたことが報告されている<ref>ey196608</ref>。

There were reported elephant bird sightings at least in folklore memory as [[Étienne de Flacourt]] wrote in 1658.{{r|ley196608}} Its egg, live or [[Subfossil|subfossilised]], was known as early as 1420, when sailors to the Cape of Good Hope found eggs of the roc, according to a caption in the 1456 [[Fra Mauro map]] of the world, which says that the roc "carries away an elephant or any other great animal".<ref>{{Cite book|title=Science and Civilisation in China|last=Needham|first=Joseph|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1971|isbn=9780521070607|pages=501}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal Surnamed the Navigator, and Its Results, Comprising the Discovery, Within One Century, of Half the World ... from Authentic Contemporary Documents|last=Major|first=Richard Henry|publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Austria – Asher (Editor)|year=1868|pages=311}}</ref> Between 1830 and 1840 European travelers in Madagascar saw giant eggs and egg shells. English observers were more willing to believe their accounts because they knew of the [[moa]] in New Zealand. In 1851 the [[French Academy of Sciences]] received three eggs. They and later fossils seemingly confirmed to 19th-century Europeans that ''Aepyornis'' was the roc, but the real bird does not resemble an eagle as the roc is said to.{{r|ley196608}}