In a Sylvia Plath poem one of them is described "in fog," and  villagers claim that the town named for this animal saved Frondoso and killed the Commander during the last act of a play by Lope de Vega.  
In Flaubert's Parrot, Geoffrey Braithwaite claims that Flaubert was greatly amused by a deformed one of these at a fair.  One of these lists its kinsmen that have been consumed by men in The Blue Bird, and the "long-legged Sleepyman" loves them in a Carl Sandburg poem. In a Sylvia Plath poem one of them is described "in fog," and  villagers claim that the town named for this animal saved Frondoso and killed the Commander during the last act of a play by Lope de Vega.  Don Quixote kills seven of them whom he thinks are Alifanfaron's army.  A vision of a man dressed as one begins Dance, Dance, Dance, while a Hokkaido postcard including one with a star on its back led the narrator to the Rat in an earlier novel.  For 10 points, name this animal, for which a man went on a wild chase in a Murakami novel and the fleece of which was sought after by the Argonauts.
In Flaubert's Parrot, Geoffrey Braithwaite claims that Flaubert was greatly amused by a deformed one of these at a fair.  
sheep