The Curious Compendium 2023 Tour Finale: Griffons!

Love the echidnas and quokkas! Now you have me googling echidna and manatee skeletons... The manatee one looks super odd but makes sense, the echidna I'd never be able to guess what animal that was

Glad to be of educational service! My Comparative Anatomy and Evolution classes in college were my favorite. And it taught me sooooo much about the scaffolding of the animal kingdom! Rabbits are one of those that would be to guess too... I would have to look at their skull in particular... but I won't give the secret away just yet! I may use it as my rabbit trivia.

Thank you Jolie.

What brand is the quokka in the middle?

Sadly, I have no idea. The member I got it from here doesn't know either.

Double upload since I missed last night...
Quoll!
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Fun fact for a northern quoll, the males often die after the mating season, leaving only females and offspring present in the wild.

and my northern glider and leadbeater's possum.
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Fun fact, leadbeater's possum was believed to be extinct for half a century. It was rediscovered in the 1960s!

All the wonderful weird small mammals, great collection of them! It's neat that so many of them exist in model form.

Thank you Andreas, Taylor, and Jill!

This is a myriad of marsupials to round out this category for my collection. All marsupial mammals are now complete.
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I like the figures so much

Me too Andreas. Thank you!

Amazing marsupial collection!

This has been fun and as with Blaine's museum, I have learned a lot. Thanks!

Thank you Roger and Kelly!

The very last group, flying placental mammals (aka bats!) from Australia.

Southern bent-wing bat, grey-headed flying fox, Northern freetail bat.

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While looking for an interesting fact to share, I found that grey-headed flying foxes have 20 teeth, while Northern freetail bats have 36! I could not find a dental formula for the bent-wing bat, but learned of a virus called the Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) that is a rabies like infection. Given that I just completed a book about rabies (Thank you Kelly!) it was an intriguing rabbit hole to fall down.

I like bat figures :)

Nice Australian fauna Paige

Indeed!

Nice bats, specially the bat on the glass.

Thank you everyone! Fernando, I love flying foxes and Schleich's from a few years ago was truly well done.

Now! We move a bit farther north and west... to Asia! And we may as well start with an iconic group... Giant Pandas.

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Fun facts... there are lots... I will share that they have vertical pupils like cats or foxes, not round like many other mammals.

..I didn't know that..

this species is not vanishing on your shelves!

Thank you Alain! 

Goodness... I realized I should have started this category off with a canine! Here we go to... raccoon dogs! 

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Fun fact... I have two! First, they are the only wild canines to hibernate and second, they can include several toxic toad species into their diet (producing copious amounts of saliva to dilute said toxin in their GI tract).

What brand is the largest raccoon dog?

Five models for a so few produiced species!

The biggest is a custom repaint done by myself. It was the Nayab raccoon.

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

The biggest is a custom repaint done by myself. It was the Nayab raccoon.

Thank you