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==== Confounding with other hybrid beasts ==== As aforementioned, the manticore is one of three hybrids from Aithiopia described together by Solinus,<ref>{{harvp|Clark|2006|p=26}}: "three Solinus hybrids"</ref> appearing in (nearly) successive chapters of the bestiary.{{Refn|{{harvp|Clark|2006}}, "XXI De leucrotar/Chapter 23 Manticor", p. 139; "XII De crocodrillo/Chapter 22 Crocodile", p. 140; "XXIII De manticora/Chapter 23 Manticor", p. 141; "XXIV De parandro/Chapter 24 Parandrus", p. 141.}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|XXII. De Cocodrillo (crocodile) intervenes (but this is probably not a hybrid).}} This created the groundwork for the beasts in adjacent chapters being confounded or amalgamated through scribal errors, as described below in the cases of bestiaries produced in France.
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