Mittit et tarandum, boum magnitudine, bisulco vestigio, ramosis cornibus, capite cervino, ursino colore et pariter villo profundo. Hunc tarandum affirmant habitum metu vertere, et quum delitescat, fieri assimilem cuicumque rei proximaverit, sive illa saxo alba sit, seu frutecto virens, sive quam aliam præferat qualitatem. Faciunt hoc idem in mari polypi, in terra chamæleontes; sed et polypus, et chamæleon glabra sunt, ut sit pronius cutis lævitatem proximanti æmulari: in hoc novum est ac singulare, hirsutiam pili colorum vices facere. Hinc evenit ut difficulter capi possit.

Aethiopia also engenders the parandrus, which is the size of an ox. It has cloven footprints, branching horns, and a deer-like head. It is the colour of a bear, and has equally shaggy hair. This parandrus, it is asserted, changes its shape when alarmed; when it takes cover, it becomes similar to whatever is near to it, be it white like a stone, green like a thicket, or whatever else it prefers.