Abada - (Also known as Rhino)

Abada may refer to:

Animals

Abada (rhinoceros), a rhino maintained by Philip II of Spain

Abada (Alternatively Bada or Ibada) was the name given to a female Indian rhinoceros held by Philip II of Spain from about 1580 to 1588. It was the rhino for the first time in Europe since the copy had been sent as a gift from the king of Portugal, Manuel I, to Pope Leo X in 1515, who died in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy in early 1516 but has been immortalized as Dürer's Rhinoceros.

Abada was probably intended as a general term for the rhino, as derived from the Malay word (badak) for the animal and may have been used in Spain and Portugal around 1530, but since this was the only example of the species in Europe, served as a proper name as well.

In 1577, the rhino arrived at the port of Lisbon for the collection of animals from Sebastian I of Portugal, probably as a gift from the viceroy of India. As a safety measure was removed from the horn (it later increased again, but seems to have been deleted on a regular basis.)

Sebastian was succeeded by Henry the following year. On the death of Henry in 1580, Philip II of Spain claimed the throne, uniting the Spanish and Portuguese crowns, and inherited the rhino, who moved to the menagerie of Casa de Campo, near Madrid. On October 16, 1583 Felipe Abada transferred again, this time at the zoo in El Escorial. The transfer was not without incident: one of the keepers decided to reload the animal by spraying with water buckets, but the sudden immersion startled and panicked, knocked down all their attendees. El Escorial, Abada was put on public display and introduced the Japanese ambassadors in November 1584. Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza mentions in his book, China, in which he commented that the public were impressed by its thick fur and horns, and there was speculation as to who is the unicorn of legend.

Philip used to play a joke on the Jeronimos monks of El Escorial. In the fall of 1584, was given a first Indian elephant (who had also inherited the Portuguese menagerie) to drive down the stairs and into the cells of the friars and the following week he repeated the trick with the rhinoceros. While the elephant can not resist the strange events, Abada was stubborn and complaining, grumpy growled and refused to eat the food that was presented. At some point in their captivity could have been blinded by the participants had difficulty in handling it and thought it would make it less likely to attack.

A street sign Street Abada, Madrid.

Abada seems to have died by 1588: Juan Villafane Arphe and include a description and print of a rhinoceros in your decorating manual published in 1585, based on observations of Abada, rather than Diirer photography, as it lacks the dorsal horn added Dürer ; still alive in 1586 when his image was captured in an engraving by Philippe Galle, and was seen by Pedro Páez the following year, but there is no record of it after 1587. A street in Madrid, Abada Street, near the Puerta del Sol still bears his name.

Mythology and other

• Abada is a forest spirit innocent Tatar mythology. It looks like an old woman.
• Abada may also be a type of small unicorn has been in Africa Congo. Not often seen, because it is a timid animal.
• Abada is also represented in the mythologies of Siberian peoples.

Martial Arts 

• Abadá-Capoeira, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to promote and support the Brazilian culture through the practice of Capoeira
• Abadá, pants worn by capoeiristas (practitioners of capoeira) 

Surname

• Abada (surname), a French surname