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,...