FigureFocus 307 Schleich Cow (Minis)

Haven't posted in a bit...and this one's going to be appropriately short for a small figure. This one is from the classic Schleich 'Minis' series, initiated in 1965 and as a group discontinued in 2005. In particular, this is the basic 'Kuh' or Cow, as in domestic cow, item number 10067. I don't know when it was released, but given the low-ish item number it was likely near the original releases. The series starts at 10001 and ends at 11210--skipping…

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Vault tales 214 – Clades – Ruminantia

Time to visit another clade, this time a true crown-group clade, the Ruminantia (or Ruminantiomorpha...if we include some of the anthracotherids that are a stem-group to the ruminantia). As a group, this is a fairly familiar one both as animals and as figures. The living groups include the bovids (cows, antelopes, goats, sheep, etc); the moschids (musk deer); the cervids (deer); the giraffids (giraffes and okapi); the antilocaprids (pronghorn) and the basal group the tragulina (chevrotains). Of course, there is…

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