The Almiraj is another jackalope like rabbit cryptid.
It's described as a small rabbit like animal usually said to have yellow fur and a long black unicorn like horn growing from the top of it's head.
According to Arabic lore, unlike a standard herbivore dite of a typical rabbit the Almiraj is a fearsome carnivores animal that can be found on Dragon Island / Sea serpents island (Jazirat al Tinnin located in the Indian Ocean .
It's mentioned in in Qazwin's The Wonders of Creation... Marvel's of things created and miraculous aspects of things existing from 1260 AD. Tough the oldest copy of Qazwini in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) currently located in Munich is dated a 464
It shows a miniature painting of the dragon and a horned rabbit
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The dragon is shown eating bull's filled with, sulfur left as a trap by Alexander the great as a means of killing the dragon.
It was successful and as a reward he was gifted a horned rabbit as thanks.
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