inherited from the Portuguese menagerie) to be driven up the steps and into the cells of the monks and the following week repeated the trick with the rhinoceros. While the elephant did not balk at the strange events, Abada was stubborn and complaining, grunted bad-temperedly, and refused to eat the food presented to her. At some point in her captivity she may have been blinded because the attendants had difficulty managing her and it was thought that this would make her less likely to attack them. Abada appears to have died by 1588: Juan de Arphe y Villafañe included a description and print of a rhinoceros in his manual of decoration published in 1585, based on observations of Abada, rather than Dürer's picture, as it lacks the dorsal horn added by Dürer; she was still alive in 1586 when her image was captured in an engraving by Philippe Galle, and was seen by Pedro Páez the following year, but there is no record of her after 1587. A street in Madrid, , close to the Puerta del Sol bears the name. Local legend has it that it was named after a sixteenth-century incident in the area in which a rhinoceros on display during a fair held on land owned by the San Martín Monastery killed a young boy and escaped to run through the city for several days before being caught. The prior of San Martin, Fray Pedro de Guevara, had a cross erected in memory of the boy. Years later, when the priory sold the land for houses to be built, a street was given the name Abada. Notes References Individual rhinoceroses 16th century in Portugal 16th century in Spain History of Lisbon History of Madrid Animals as diplomatic gifts