Aelian

Claudius Aelianus, known as Aelian, was a Roman author of the late 2nd and early 3rd century CE who wrote in Greek and lived chiefly in Italy. He is best known for 'On the Nature of Animals,' a collection of curious and moralizing anecdotes about the animal world, and for the 'Various History,' a miscellany of historical and biographical curiosities. His works preserve much information drawn from earlier authors now lost.