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The aim of this paper is to examine the role of animal representation in the poetry of Ibn Ḥamdīs, through the analysis of formulaic language and rhetorical devices in three odes centered on the falconry and the cynegetics. In the re-adaptation of the hunting poem (ṭardiyya), Ibn Ḥamdīs explores a rather rare subject in the Siculo-Arabic poetry, showing the capability of recasting the formal and semantic aspects of the eminent Abbasid models. Moreover, he wisely merges ancient mod-ules and formulas of the ṭardiyya with themes and motives of heterogeneous nature according to the aesthetic sense of the Andalusian courts.