My Wild Safari

Takama wrote:

Roger wrote:

Great cheetah, I also like that one best but a running cheetah is a more original and interesting idea.

orcagirl26 wrote:

Could the baboon be a chacma?

Maybe you're right, I also tried to check on CollectorsQuest and ATF but I was not able of finding a good answer. The ATF topic about that figure only have a single reply but no suggestion about the species. Comparing with real species pictures is not easy at all.

I contacted Safari Via Facebook and asked them what species the Baboon was.  Apparently its meant to be a Olive Baboon.

Thanks, that is interesting! :)

Takama wrote:

Roger wrote:

Great cheetah, I also like that one best but a running cheetah is a more original and interesting idea.

orcagirl26 wrote:

Could the baboon be a chacma?

Maybe you're right, I also tried to check on CollectorsQuest and ATF but I was not able of finding a good answer. The ATF topic about that figure only have a single reply but no suggestion about the species. Comparing with real species pictures is not easy at all.

I contacted Safari Via Facebook and asked them what species the Baboon was.  Apparently its meant to be a Olive Baboon.

I don't know why Safari Ltd. didn't put the actual species of baboon on the hang tag   

Gorgeous jaguar! Congrats!

I love that jaguar too ! Great find  
What a shame it is retired now   

New ones in

Platypus
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American Pelican

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Congrats!

I like the jaguar a lot!
Lovely pelican too

A beautieful pelican and platypus too!

The platypus is also very special, - one ofd the few that MOVES   
I have never seen a live platypus, but this one give the impression of loose, velvety skin , and a very muscular, active critter, instead of the static ones we usually see in models  

Just look at  THIS cutie  

well it took me a while, but I found this topic.   I did not know it was moved to additions, but no problem, I'm glad it moved :)

Anyways, I got a rare one today.   Its the Sulfur crested Cockatoo.

I relly lik the pose on this one. Its like its  either startled, or excited.

This figure is something special for me, because I had some experience with Cockatoos

My Dads Dad, used to have a Bird syndrome, and bought several birds as pets, and three of them were cockatoos. The first one was a Umbrella one named Babe, and he Was a very unpredictable bird. One moment your having fun playing with him, and the next, he bites you in the neck (Not the happiest moment in my life)

The second one was a Molocan named Peaches.  Now at the time I occasionally get nervous when handling birds, because i'm always afraid they were going to bite my fingers off. But Peaches was a Sweetheart at birth, and she never bit me.

The third one was Baby, another Umbrella that I don't know much about, because My Grandpa gave him away after a week due to feather problems.

Eventually, My grandpa had to get rid of most of the birds due to finances and a divorce. The last time I saw him, He had Peaches and a Macaw that he loved named Jewel.  He asked me if I wanted Peaches, and I said Yeah. But my mom could not handle the constant screeching that she makes, So we gave her away to someone else.


Sadly, he died just at the beginning of last year  and Jewel Was sold to a local Pet Shop


I have been looking for this model for a decent price because it is a cockatoo, and it very much reminds me of those days I spent with him.

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Congratulations with finding this beautyful model   

And thankyou for the wonderful story about your grandad's " Bird syndrome "   
I surely understand him !
And parrots are very special, very intelligent . The only one I had was a budgie, but he was a darling   

I am so sorry to hear that peaches had to be moved around so much. They suffer when they loose a human friend   
Hopefully she got a good home eventually  

Congrats

Comeing later. Four new items. From the Saint Louis Zoo

Hippopotamus.

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The old hippo in new painting   

Ohh, she is SO much on my wishlist ! Congratulations with this beautyy   

Flamingo

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This new painting to hippo lady makes a lot of difference.
I love the flamingo and have it too but hahaha, don't you like cartoonish eyes? ... what about Geoworld dinos?

LOL well that's a little different Roger.

Beautiful flamingo and beautieful sea lion!!

Last one is this Red Panda.

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I also have the sea lion and I prefer the cartoonish eyes versus the old version:

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Sorry, but I think the old version was just terrible  

orcagirl26 wrote:

I also have the sea lion and I prefer the cartoonish eyes versus the old version:

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Sorry, but I think the old version was just terrible  

Well I hoped that the Sea Lion looked like this

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Notice the Black in the Eyes?

I boght this over the newer swimming one, because it was sculpted by Dan LoRusso. He sculpted the Hippo, and Cheetah I have as well.

Takama wrote:

orcagirl26 wrote:

I also have the sea lion and I prefer the cartoonish eyes versus the old version:

Sorry, but I think the old version was just terrible  

Well I hoped that the Sea Lion looked like this

Notice the Black in the Eyes?

I boght this over the newer swimming one, because it was sculpted by Dan LoRusso. He sculpted the Hippo, and Cheetah I have as well.

Congrats for your red panda, I'd love to see a dino painted like that.
How do you know which figures were sculpted by Dan LoRusso or not? I'd love to know too.

Congrats

Here's the Wild Safari Models that were sculpted by Dan

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