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Wasn't there some enormous flightless bird in Madagascar ( Dinornis? Elephant-bird?)? -- Error
Is there some relation between the Roc and the Chinese 鹏 (Peng, which Unicode defines as a "fabulous bird of enormous size")? -- Gro-Tsen 12:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The article mentions that "Rook" is from this mythological bird, or that it's from a siege-tower mounted on an elephant. The dominant hypothesis, i believe, is that "Rook" comes from the Persian for "chariot", thus corresponding with Indian / Chinese etc. versions of the chess piece. I'm making a change to reflect that. 82.69.37.32 11:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Is there anything in the following that adds one iota of understanding to the subject of this article ( Wetman 17:29, 31 August 2006 (UTC)):
I suppose this (spurious?) insertion was inspired by gazing upon the illustration from a children's version of "Sinbad the Sailor" we have for an illustration. In fact, is there any mention of the roc's white plumage? -- Wetman 09:49, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
"This roc is a white bird, of a monstrous size; his strength is such, that he can lift up elephants from the plains, and carry them to the tops of mountains, where he feeds upon them." From the "Aldine" Edition of The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1890 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.120.156.150 ( talk) 01:30, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
in arabic we said frok - frak (small Chick) if you add just (f) to Roc it means the baby bird such as Falcon baby! رخ فرخ the word is used until today for the samll birds
http://www.baheth.info/all.jsp?term=فرخ Mewoone ( talk) 18:45, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
I see my reference to the probable identity between the Roc and the giant flying bird Argentavis magnificens has been deleted. Could it be somebody interested in "mythology" doesn't want to consider the possibility - likelihood - that the factual descriptions by Marco Polo and others are good descriptions of a bird they actually saw, and not mythological at all? Although fossils found so far are a few million years old and from Argentina, it's no stretch to expect that such huge birds would have flown to all the continents and wouldn't have died out everywhere at once. The "piglike elephants" described would of course be Indonesian pygmy mammoths which also existed to a late date in these regions, notably on and around islands such as Komodo, where the giant "Komodo dragons" that also preyed on them still exist. craig at saers dot com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.110.30 ( talk) 17:39, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Was linked here from XKCD, and noticed the naming similarity with the Rakk giant bird creatures from the Borderlands video game series.
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I wonder if the name 'roc' is an onomatopoeic rendition of the cry of the elephant bird in Madagascar? Many large birds (especially raptors) go 'raack!' or similar. If so, the bird may have been extant when arab merchants got to Madagascar, or at least they recorded folk legends from the local people of the roc.
(I added the above but was reverted. Just wondering why it was removed?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dasiths ( talk • contribs) 12:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
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Wasn't there some enormous flightless bird in Madagascar ( Dinornis? Elephant-bird?)? -- Error
Is there some relation between the Roc and the Chinese 鹏 (Peng, which Unicode defines as a "fabulous bird of enormous size")? -- Gro-Tsen 12:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The article mentions that "Rook" is from this mythological bird, or that it's from a siege-tower mounted on an elephant. The dominant hypothesis, i believe, is that "Rook" comes from the Persian for "chariot", thus corresponding with Indian / Chinese etc. versions of the chess piece. I'm making a change to reflect that. 82.69.37.32 11:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Is there anything in the following that adds one iota of understanding to the subject of this article ( Wetman 17:29, 31 August 2006 (UTC)):
I suppose this (spurious?) insertion was inspired by gazing upon the illustration from a children's version of "Sinbad the Sailor" we have for an illustration. In fact, is there any mention of the roc's white plumage? -- Wetman 09:49, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
"This roc is a white bird, of a monstrous size; his strength is such, that he can lift up elephants from the plains, and carry them to the tops of mountains, where he feeds upon them." From the "Aldine" Edition of The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1890 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.120.156.150 ( talk) 01:30, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
in arabic we said frok - frak (small Chick) if you add just (f) to Roc it means the baby bird such as Falcon baby! رخ فرخ the word is used until today for the samll birds
http://www.baheth.info/all.jsp?term=فرخ Mewoone ( talk) 18:45, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
I see my reference to the probable identity between the Roc and the giant flying bird Argentavis magnificens has been deleted. Could it be somebody interested in "mythology" doesn't want to consider the possibility - likelihood - that the factual descriptions by Marco Polo and others are good descriptions of a bird they actually saw, and not mythological at all? Although fossils found so far are a few million years old and from Argentina, it's no stretch to expect that such huge birds would have flown to all the continents and wouldn't have died out everywhere at once. The "piglike elephants" described would of course be Indonesian pygmy mammoths which also existed to a late date in these regions, notably on and around islands such as Komodo, where the giant "Komodo dragons" that also preyed on them still exist. craig at saers dot com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.110.30 ( talk) 17:39, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
Was linked here from XKCD, and noticed the naming similarity with the Rakk giant bird creatures from the Borderlands video game series.
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I wonder if the name 'roc' is an onomatopoeic rendition of the cry of the elephant bird in Madagascar? Many large birds (especially raptors) go 'raack!' or similar. If so, the bird may have been extant when arab merchants got to Madagascar, or at least they recorded folk legends from the local people of the roc.
(I added the above but was reverted. Just wondering why it was removed?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dasiths ( talk • contribs) 12:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)