Editing Bestiary (section)

==Modern bestiaries==
In modern times, artists such as [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]] and [[Saul Steinberg]] have produced their own bestiaries. [[Jorge Luis Borges]] wrote a contemporary bestiary of sorts, the ''[[Book of Imaginary Beings]]'', which collects imaginary beasts from bestiaries and fiction. Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called "The Bestiary" (Dial, 2007) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary. John Henry Fleming's ''[[Fearsome Creatures of Florida]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fearsomecreatures.com |title=Fearsome Creatures of Florida by John Henry Fleming |website=Fearsomecreatures.com |access-date=2016-12-06}}</ref> (Pocol Press, 2009) borrows from the medieval bestiary tradition to impart moral lessons about the environment. [[Caspar Henderson]]'s ''[[The Book of Barely Imagined Beings]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barelyimaginedbeings.com |title=The Book of Barely Imagined Beings |website=Barelyimaginedbeings.com |access-date=2016-12-06}}</ref> ([[Granta]] 2012, [[University of Chicago Press]] 2013), subtitled "A 21st Century Bestiary", explores how humans imagine animals in a time of rapid environmental change. In July 2014, Jonathan Scott wrote ''The Blessed Book of Beasts'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rna.org/news/184377/Beasts-from-the-East.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141019031915/http://www.rna.org/news/184377/Beasts-from-the-East.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-10-19 |title=Religion News Association & Foundation |website=Rna.org |date=2016-11-21 |access-date=2016-12-06 }}</ref> Eastern Christian Publications, featuring 101 animals from the various translations of the Bible, in keeping with the tradition of the bestiary found in the writings of the Saints, including [[John Chrysostom|Saint John Chrysostom]]. In today's world there is a discipline called [[cryptozoology]] which is the study of unknown species. This discipline can be linked to medieval bestiaries because in many cases the unknown animals can be the same, as well as having meaning or significance behind them.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dendle |first1=Peter |title=Cryptozoology in the Medieval and Modern Worlds |journal=Folklore |date=2006 |volume=117 |issue=2 |pages=190–206 |doi=10.1080/00155870600707888 |jstor=30035486 |s2cid=55397570 }}</ref>

The lists of monsters to be found in [[video games]] (such as ''[[NetHack]]'', ''[[Dragon Quest]]'', and ''[[Monster Hunter]]''), as well as some [[tabletop role-playing game]]s such as [[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game|Pathfinder]], are often termed bestiaries.