The Curious Compendium 2023-2024: Dobermans!

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Obviously my comments come from someone who is an outsider from those global regions.  And of course, when introducing or reintroducing a species, there should be a lot of care taken into research before reintroduction, but also VERY close management of said animals so as to avoid compounding negative consequences (like invasive species in Hawaii for instance).

Thank you for your commentary! There are a few points that I will do more research on. I think the poor fact about humanity however, is no matter the soundness of good advice, someone will often end up "kidding themselves" about the reality of nature. How many want to have wild animals as pets even when it would be a potentially deadly mistake? How many people own wild cats or bears for example? But I digress...

Next collection update will come tonight.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Red Roos!




The old Bully didn't make it into the first pic with his 2 descendants...

One "fun" fact about these guys, is you would NEVER want to enter the water with one. They will enter a body of water as a method of self protection from predators. They commonly drown pursuers this way (often dingoes). So beware! If you were to ever see a kangaroo waist or shoulder deep in water, there is nothing innocent about it!

And, one group as requested by BlueKrono, a family portrait of my snapping turtles.


Requests may be shown again later when I present that category as a whole (i.e. chelonians in this case).

[BlueKrono]

Looks like a Heosemys spinosa snuck in there on the left. Never seen that one before; do you know who makes it?

[Gwangi]

I love that old Larami snapping turtle, as goofy as it is. But the only alligator snapping turtle that interests me is the Safari IC one. Would love for someone to make a common snapper.

[NSD Bashe]

Reminds me of a tiny baby snapping turtle I saw on an island once; for a second I actually thought I discovered a tiny dinosaur 

[bmathison1972]

Looks like a Heosemys spinosa snuck in there on the left. Never seen that one before; do you know who makes it?

it has a Bandai Animal Kaiser look to it...

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Thank you for the gentle correction BlueKrono!

I got that figure a few months ago and the original seller couldn't give me an ID for it. I am in no way a great herpetologist, and know very little about most turtles or tortoises etc. When I got it I could not find a species that fit it very well, so I got to the point that I assumed if it wasn't a sawback turtle it was an aggrandized snapper. Thank you for the ID! It suits him much better.

I was told that it is a Bandai Kaiser figure, Blaine had it right. My only other models from this line are a handful of birds of prey.

I would love to get the IC snapper, there is one on ebay I am keeping an eye on. And yes, they really do look like little dinosaurs!

Thank you everyone.

[BlueKrono]

@Saarlooswolfhound No problem. While it's no longer my current career I have been a herpetologist, specializing in turtles. I've worked with them in Brazil, Mexico, Florida and Minnesota. My snapper toy collection is a lot less studious though: it includes any spiky shell turtle like Gamera, Slash and Tokka. 

[Saarlooswolfhound]

That is really neat BlueKrono. May I ask what your work was in? Education/instructive, wildlife and parks deptartment, or research, etc.? Your turtle collection aounds great! As a child, I loved "stealing" my brother's old toys while he was in school. TMNT, Godzilla, JP, Power Rangers, etc. I wouldn't say your collection is less "studious" as perhaps more "inclusive" of varieties.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

An early-ish post as I will preoccupied this evening.

My scant Grey Kangaroos, at least there are 2 so they aren't lonely.


And again, as requested, my neotenic salamanders (I think I got all my aquatic morphs here).

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Next are my smaller macropods; several wallaby species and such presented here.


And, as requested, my horned frogs.


And, a tower of them... why not?

[EpicRaptorMan]

Been interested in obtaining that Papo horned frog

[BlueKrono]

Been interested in obtaining that Papo horned frog

Good luck. I found one for sale for about $7 in Singapore a couple months ago and placed the order. They emailed me and said it turns out it's out of stock. I think it was the last place to have them for non-ridiculous markup prices.

[JimoAi]

Been interested in obtaining that Papo horned frog

Good luck. I found one for sale for about $7 in Singapore a couple months ago and placed the order. They emailed me and said it turns out it's out of stock. I think it was the last place to have them for non-ridiculous markup prices.

I love in Singapore and I can confirm they arebput of stock

[NSD Bashe]

That frog stack is legit

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Belated thank you guys!

Next up are tree kangaroos. Various species.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Sorry I am a day late! Had some things come up.

Here are all of my Koalas.



I think my "fun fact" here will be the day I learned about the koala mating call. I was passively listening to a documentary and all of a sudden it sounded like a dragon began to roar! Impressive sounds from such small guys.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Possums from down under.


Fun fact, possums are only pregnant for about 17 days! Seems like a short time, but remember that they are born very "prematurely" compared to other mammal species.

[Saarlooswolfhound]

Man, I fell behind! While on my trip, since I should have a little extra time, I will do a few more frequent uploads to catch up.

Next are wombats, common and southern hairy-nosed respectively.




Fun fact... wombats have cube shaped feces. This is a result of how digested waste dries out inside their colon as well as the structural features of their colon (2 "sides" are non flexible, while 2 are flexible = creating the distinctive shape).

[Isidro]

Oh, the Yowies hairy-nosed wombat is in my wishlist :-)