Brand: CollectA

Oryol Mare, Dark Grey (Horse Country by CollectA)

Name(s): Domestic horse, Equus, Equus ferus, Equus ferus caballus, Oryol/Orlov Trotter Brand: CollectA Classification: Horses, Zebras & Kin, Mammals Type: Figurine Range: Asia

5 (5 votes)

Review and images by Harecraft Horses; edited by bmathison1972

Much better known as the Orlov Trotter, named after their developer Count Alexei Orlov, this is a famous breed but not a common one outside its native homeland, and it’s fairly rare to see in model form, too. With nothing yet from Breyer, the market leader in the model horse world, we have to turn to the more toy-type brands : Mojo Fun have released their Orlov Trotter sculpt in two different shades of grey, and now CollectA bring us a brand new one.

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Pacific White-Sided Dolphin (Sealife by CollectA)

Name(s): Lagenorhynchus, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens, Pacific white-sided dolphin Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammals, Whales & Dolphins Type: Figurine

4 (5 votes)

The overrepresentation of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.) undermines the real diversity within the Delphinidae family, thus warranting a look at a species like the Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens). This species is endemic to the North Pacific, spanning across Baja California, Southern China, and the Bering Sea.

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Père David’s Deer (Wildlife by CollectA)

Name(s): Elaphurus, Elaphurus davidianus, Père David's deer Brand: CollectA Classification: Deer, Mammals Type: Figurine

4.5 (8 votes)

When it comes describing CollectA’s choice of species to produce, it starts to sound like a broken record. But true to their mission statement, they continue to mine the long list of unique and often obscure animals that no one had paid attention to and bring them up to the spotlight.

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Pilot Whale (Sealife by CollectA)

Name(s): Globicephala, Globicephala macrorhynchus, short-finned pilot whale Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammals, Whales & Dolphins Type: Figurine

5 (4 votes)

Review and images by callmejoe3; edited by bmathison1972

When it comes to cetaceans, I generally find all mysticetes equally interesting, but I have strong preferences between different odontocetes. Outside of sperm whales and orcas, my next favorites are the members of the Globicephalinae subfamily of oceanic dolphins. This taxon contains all the species of dolphins referred to as ‘’blackfish’’, other than the killer whale.

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Platypus (Wildlife by CollectA)

Name(s): Ornithorhynchus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammals, Monotremes Type: Figurine

4.8 (8 votes)

Review and images by jumboplayset; edited by bmathison1972

Ornithorhynchus anatinus!!! If this animal doesn’t send an electromagnetic current of the gleeful excitement of discovery up and down your spine, then you may be an invertebrate 🙂 ! Along with the short-beaked and long-beaked echidnas, the platypus is the last of the monotremes.

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Praying Mantis (Little Wonders by CollectA)

Name(s): Mantis, Mantis religiosa, praying mantis Brand: CollectA Classification: Arthropods, Insects, Orthopteroids Type: Figurine Range: Asia, Europe

3 (2 votes)

Review and images by Animal Lover; edited by bmathison1972

Hello fellow readers and collectors! I am “Animal Lover”. On the Dinosaur Toy Blog, I write reviews by the name “Prehistory Resurrection” (my old name was “Resurrection of the Dinosaurs”). I wrote about more than 10 reviews for the Dinosaur Toy Blog.

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Przewalski’s Horse (Horse Country by CollectA)

Name(s): Equus, Equus ferus, Equus ferus przewalskii, Przewalski's Horse Brand: CollectA Classification: Horses, Zebras & Kin, Mammals Type: Figurine Range: Asia, Europe

4.8 (5 votes)

Since its release in 2013 I’ve been eyeballing the CollectA Przewalski’s horse (pronounced shuh-VAL-skee and also known as the takhi) for my collection, even though I didn’t really collect extant animals at the time. What I was collecting were dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, and recently extinct animals too. So why the interest in this horse?

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Pygmy Sperm Whale (Sealife by CollectA)

Name(s): Kogia, Kogia breviceps, pygmy sperm whale Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammals, Whales & Dolphins Type: Figurine

4.1 (7 votes)

Review and images by callmejoe3; edited by bmathison1972

Our latest cetacean review will shift its attention to a long-overlooked species, the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps). The cetacean clade ‘’Physeteroidea’’, is one of the oldest lineages within the odontocete order. Its only extant members are the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) and the species within the Kogia genus.

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Red Kangaroo, male 2021 (Wildlife by CollectA)

Name(s): Osphranter, Osphranter rufus, red kangaroo Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammals, Marsupials Type: Figurine Range: Oceania

5 (4 votes)

Review and images by Suspsy; edited by bmathison1972

For a male red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus), the journey from adorable joey to towering boomer centres mainly around one thing: the ritualized fighting known as boxing. Only the victors win the privilege of mating rights, and as such, battles between boomers can be extremely violent and ugly.

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Red River Hog (Wildlife by CollectA)

Name(s): Potamochoerus, Potamochoerus porcus, red river hog Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammals, Pigs & Peccaries Type: Figurine Range: Africa

4.8 (8 votes)

I wanted to introduce the first mammal to the Animal Toy Blog, so I used a Random Number Generator in conjunction with my Excel file database and here we have the red river hog, Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus, 1758) by CollectA. The figure was released in 2012 as part of their Wild Life line.

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Red Squirrel (Wildlife by CollectA)

Name(s): red squirrel, Sciurus, Sciurus vulgaris Brand: CollectA Classification: Mammals, Rodents Type: Figurine Range: Asia, Europe

4.8 (9 votes)

In keeping with the tradition that I started last year; I’ve decided to once again review an animal native to Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day. And I’ve had this one in mind for a while. It’s the CollectA 2011 red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and I originally purchased it in August at my local county fair.

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Saiga Antelope (Wildlife by CollectA)

Name(s): Saiga, Saiga antelope, Saiga tatarica Brand: CollectA Classification: Antelopes, Mammals Type: Figurine

5 (5 votes)

As strong winds swept across the steppe, vast herds of grazing animals can be seen dotting the landscape. It would be easy to mistake the scene as something out of Africa. After all, rhinos, elephants, big cats, and antelopes can be seen in the distance. But this is not Africa, the vast landscape stretching before us is the Eurasian steppe during the last ice age.

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