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Labels taken from the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher’s diagram of Arca Noë of 1675.

Kircher detailed a plan of the Ark in which scientific studies of the time were reconciled with biblical records. The Ark was classified into three floors:  Ornithotropheion, Bromatodocheion and Zootropheion. Rhinoceros were arranged in O2, between lions and elephants.