Specific Breeds of Figures

I know that Schleich is not always specific or even correct when naming specific species of animals. I actually have a excel document to keep track of what figures I have and which ones I need. I was just going through it and updating some things and was wondering if there was an actual place where they are all correctly identified, for example the two most recent seals that were released as a family, but someone pointed out that they were actually two different species.

pokeyanyway wrote:

I know that Schleich is not always specific or even correct when naming specific species of animals. I actually have a excel document to keep track of what figures I have and which ones I need. I was just going through it and updating some things and was wondering if there was an actual place where they are all correctly identified, for example the two most recent seals that were released as a family, but someone pointed out that they were actually two different species.

I would kill for a king penguin!!


I need it!

That's a good question about these seals. We are identifying them on TAI as grey seals while Schleich website identify them as harbor seals. I don't remember very well the discussion about them but I think it was related with the white color of the pup. This is a feature much more common in grey seals than in harbor seals. Though, their faces, have the nostrils closer to the usual v-shaped ones of harbor seals. It is actually an interesting question and if we agree they're harbours, we could change it at Toy Animal Wiki.
The king penguin is a different question. Here there is no doubts, Schleich released a king penguin and later introduced chicks of a different species, the emperor penguin. It is easy to mix both species but not when they are chicks. So, Schleich, replaced the king penguin adult for a emperor penguin and fixed it. Papo is often also very generic identifying some species.