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V Mammals

H) Carnivorans

2) Caniforms

a) Mustelids

Species : Beech marten, ferret, European badger, Eurasian otter, wolverine, striped skunk
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Figures on this picture (from left to right) :
- Schleich 14229 Marten (1997-2002)
- Schleich 14418 Ferret (2006-2009)
- Schleich 14224 Badger (1993-2001)
- Schleich 14651 Badger Cubs (2011-2014)
- Schleich 14694 Otter (2013-2016)
- Schleich 14646 Wolverine (2011-2014)
- Schleich 14672 Skunk (2012-2015)
- Schleich 41456 North American forest dwellers (2017-2019)

Fun facts :
- The last Schleich European badger is one of the few retired Schleich figures I never found. As I am not satisfied with the Papo version, I am still keeping my old Schleich one, waiting to replace it.
- Even if I already have the Schleich rendition, I may add the Mojo wolverine to this family picture as I think it is a masterpiece, the best wolverine on the market and one of Mojo's best looking figures.
- I am also considering Mojo's stoat and honey badgers.
- I have the marten and the old badger from my childhood. I bought the skunk from the North American forest dwellers set in my favourite Schleich shop (I got it separately from the set) and found the other one when I was on holidays with my parents. I found the badger cubs and the wolverine during my figure hunts and ordered the otter on Gaschers.de. Finally, I bought the ferret to a collector from my region I met on a French second hand website.
- I have seen beech martens in the wild. I have seen Eurasian otters in zoos an ferrets in pet shops. I have seen striped skunks in only two zoos and wolverines only in Paris zoo. I have only seen one badger in the "Ark's Refuge", a zoo which keeps and takes care of injured animals from local wildlife.

Update : Old Schleich badger is replaced by
- Schleich 14650 Badger (2011-2013)
- Schleich 14842 Badger (2021-still in production)
For further information, please check the addition topics.
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Hi! Just curiosity, why doesn't Papo's badger satisfy you?

Muzzle is way too short !

Ben, is the Schleich otter colours really like that or your photo's light? Mine is soooo much different...

Can you show yours there ?

I think it is just a bit darker in real but not much.

I have a group of three badgers: ELC/AAA, Schleich cubs playing and the 1997 Bullyland. I'm not sure if I should add any more. Anyone got any ideas if I do decide to add a couple more? (this may also help you Ben) I'm quite fond of the CollectA and Mojo figures.

For a while I have been looking for a decent marten figure. My best shot is the ELC pine marten but I need to find it. The Kaiyodo Tushima martens look nice but finding them will also be a struggle.

Now back to more interesting species again! :)
Lucky you to have seen beech martens in the wild!!!!!! I only saw a dead one (poisoned???). You didn't saw honey badgers in zoos?

I don't have none of these species in my collection, but maybe some should join :)

Advicot wrote:

I have a group of three badgers: ELC/AAA, Schleich cubs playing and the 1997 Bullyland. I'm not sure if I should add any more. Anyone got any ideas if I do decide to add a couple more? scratch (this may also help you Ben) I'm quite fond of the CollectA and Mojo figures.

The Mojo will be ok for me if I can't find the more recent Schleich.

Pardofelis wrote:

Now back to more interesting species again! :)
Lucky you to have seen beech martens in the wild!!!!!! I only saw a dead one (poisoned???). You didn't saw honey badgers in zoos?

I don't have none of these species in my collection, but maybe some should join :)

I knew you would get bored with lions and tigers

Every mustelids I have seen in the wild it was when I was watching birds and the mustelid just passed behind. I have seen a weasel trying to catch a bluethroat like that. When I worked as a street fundraiser for Greenpeace, my collegues saw a wild badger but I was asleep in the car when it happened

I have never seen a honey badger in zoo.

Besides the Schleich skunks and badger kits, I have also all of these.
My favourite badger is the Schleich from 2011 you miss. Mojö's Fun is 2nd most loved. I also have CollectA'. I also don't like the Papo badger to be fair.
I am glad you can see how great is the Mojö wolverine, it has a wonderful face but that is not defintely the only good point of the figure. Together with the Safari version, these are my favourite wolverines. I have the Schleich and Bullyland too but these two are not as fine.
I have also several skunks, from the old retired Bullyland, the almost unknown 1st version of Safari, though, my favourite is the Mojö version, it also has a beautiful face and you may like it.
I surely recomend Mojö stoat and honey badger. Both are relatively small figures and very well sculpted. Only the ratel has a glossy touch once texture is finely sculpted and it may shock with what you are used with Schleich.
There are other figures from this kind that I own but I won't recomend them to you once they are big, namely the amazing Safari American badger.

The American badger looked acceptable when you showed it to me but maybe the pic was misleading.

Indeed, the glossy touch is what makes me hesitate about buying the Mojo ratel family or not. Contrary to what you think, I am used to glossy figures as most vintage Schleich were like that and I own several of them I don't show on this topic. But it is precisely what I dislike the most about old Schleich figures.
However, that's an interesting species and no other honey badger is compatible with my collection sizewise (the safari version is better but much larger) so I may end up getting it once I have bought all other figures I am interested in.

Having a woodland very close to me we get all kinds of creatures visiting my garden and farm fields. From 2004 till 2011 we had one individual badger who always visited the garden, then we discovered at the bottom of the garden there was a badger set roughly 10 feet across!

I wanted the honey badger from Safari and I decided against it as it is huuge compared to the Mojo figures, I am getting the Yowie one instead for a juvenile to the two parents. I got the Safari American badger in 2018 and I wasn't in any way disappointed with it

V Mammals

H) Carnivorans

2) Caniforms

b) Procyonids

Species : Northern raccoon
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Figures on this picture (from left to right and background to foreground) :
- Schleich 14624 Raccoon Standing (2010-2015)
- Schleich 14604 Raccoon (2009-2014)
- Schleich 14625 Raccoon Cubs (2010-2013)

Fun facts :
- I prefer these raccoons over last year's model, that's why I never bought it and waited to get the previous version.
- They are among the very last Schleich figures I bought. I ordered them online as I never found them in shops.
- I had the cubs for free, as part of a sales offer. I did not plan to buy them as I found them ridiculous but since I could get them for free...
- I have seen raccoons in zoos. I have even seen the rare crab-eating raccoon and I wonder if Pardo has seen it too.

Until the summer of 2019 I only had these three figures in my collection. I did buy the newest Schleich figure. After getting good grades at school I was treated to purchase some of the 2019 Schleich. I bought: The raccoon, okapi, lynx, lemur and the tarantula. On New Years Eve 2019 I bought the quokka and the Komodo dragon so I bought them in 2018.

When I drove to France last summer I saw a roadkill raccoon and that's the only time I have ever seen one

I was surprised you had the schleich marten as pine marten in your collection. Then, I tooked a look in TAI and there it is also considered as pine marten.
I don´t know if yours are other editions then mine, but mine has clearly a white belly. So, I have mine as beech marten in my collection. I tooked now a look in the old catalogues and in Germany, Schleich sold the marten as "Steinmarder" = beech marten.

My marten has always been a beech marten in my collection until... this morning when I checked on TAI and saw it was tagged as a "pine marten". So if you tell me it is indeed a beech marten, I gladly trust you as I also remember this figure was referenced as a beech marten in the French catalogue.

When I entered this forum, the most respectful voices always mentioned it as a pine marten. The rule was easy, Bullyland figure is a beech marten and Schleich is a pine marten. I think we all collectivelly assumed it. It is often the result from wanting different species. When I received mine, many years after its release, I didn't care at all what it was once it was almost universally accepted. It is one of the reasons why I always say that all discussions on forum are always open.
I checked the TAW page since the first edits and it was always listed as an European pine marten but the German name on page is Steinmarder. I agree with you and I will fix it even it may sound shocking to the older generations of collectors that I probably am a part. Many thanks.

Advicot wrote:

When I drove to France last summer I saw a roadkill raccoon and that's the only time I have ever seen one

You made me learn there is raccoons in France. I did not know it and thought they had only been introduced in eastern Europe but I checked on wiki and indeed, there are a few populations in my country.

V Mammals

H) Carnivorans

2) Caniforms

c) Red pandas

Species : Red panda
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Figures on this picture (from left to right) :
- Papo 50217 Red Panda (2017-still in production)
- Schleich 14833 Red Panda (2020-still in production)

Fun facts :
- I can't decide which one I prefer. Never mind, they form a lovely pair together.
- I bought both of them in this shop which is close to my job.
- I have seen red pandas in zoos.

Roger wrote:

When I entered this forum, the most respectful voices always mentioned it as a pine marten. The rule was easy, Bullyland figure is a beech marten and Schleich is a pine marten. I think we all collectivelly assumed it. It is often the result from wanting different species. When I received mine, many years after its release, I didn't care at all what it was once it was almost universally accepted. It is one of the reasons why I always say that all discussions on forum are always open.
I checked the TAW page since the first edits and it was always listed as an European pine marten but the German name on page is Steinmarder. I agree with you and I will fix it even it may sound shocking to the older generations of collectors that I probably am a part. Many thanks.

I didn´t want to shock anybody ^^
For me it was a surprise, that people call it pine marten as the catalogs always said beech marten. But I don´t know if this was only in German the case. When you explain the basic difference between this two marten species in a very easy way, we always talk about the fur. The beech marten has a white breast and the pine marten a yellow-cream breast.
Maybe some figurines have different colours in different countries and that´s way most people thought it could be a pine marten?

Duck-Anch-Amun wrote:

Roger wrote:

When I entered this forum, the most respectful voices always mentioned it as a pine marten. The rule was easy, Bullyland figure is a beech marten and Schleich is a pine marten. I think we all collectivelly assumed it. It is often the result from wanting different species. When I received mine, many years after its release, I didn't care at all what it was once it was almost universally accepted. It is one of the reasons why I always say that all discussions on forum are always open.
I checked the TAW page since the first edits and it was always listed as an European pine marten but the German name on page is Steinmarder. I agree with you and I will fix it even it may sound shocking to the older generations of collectors that I probably am a part. Many thanks.

I didn´t want to shock anybody ^^

Too late!

Duck-Anch-Amun wrote:

For me it was a surprise, that people call it pine marten as the catalogs always said beech marten. But I don´t know if this was only in German the case. When you explain the basic difference between this two marten species in a very easy way, we always talk about the fur. The beech marten has a white breast and the pine marten a yellow-cream breast.
Maybe some figurines have different colours in different countries and that´s way most people thought it could be a pine marten?

I have no idea and I can't check mine at the moment. This kind of things always happen, there is a kind of cultural thing on it. It is like calling Nayab to almost every made in China figure we don't know. Everyone calls them Nayab and we continue doing it even if we are tired to know that most of them are not. ... or the Papo young lion for a long time called a lioness, or the CollectA red deers you've just posted about, etc.!

Crab-eating raccoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW I'm jealous!!!!!!!!

The marten thing is easy. Beech marten have a yellow throat and pine marten a white throat. Bullyland marten have white throat so it's a pine marten. Schleich marten have a brown throat so it's a fisher or sable!!!!

Pardofelis wrote:

Crab-eating raccoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW I'm jealous!!!!!!!!

The marten thing is easy. Beech marten have a yellow throat and pine marten a white throat. Bullyland marten have white throat so it's a pine marten. Schleich marten have a brown throat so it's a fisher or sable!!!!

It seems that isn´t so easy, as it is exactly the other way The pine marten has "a cream- to yellow-coloured "bib" marking on its throat"

Oh, maybe I mixed the two common names. Are not pine martens Martes foina and beech martens Martes martes? It's just the other way? I always manage better scientific names

Pardofelis wrote:

Oh, maybe I mixed the two common names. Are not pine martens Martes foina and beech martens Martes martes? It's just the other way? I always manage better scientific names

Yeah, here is the problem :) Beech marten (Martes foina) and Pine marten (martes martes ) :)