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Resi (short for Resident Evil) the cow went on a trip today and met up with her pal Sage the Thylacine (belongs to @thylacines-toybox) at the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh!!

We had lots of fun and saw lots of rhododendrons! She had a pistachio lemon bakewell tart for lunch.

She also met a friendly squirrel or two!

#plushie #steiff #cow plush #plush cow #plush thylacine

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Fantastic work! I love their colours!!

I made myself a thylacine plush with the lovely pattern designed by @palaeoplushies​. The stars on the fabric are glow in the dark, and I’m super happy with how he turned out.

Anyways, y’all should check out Palaeoplushies’ shop. There’s a lot of cool stuff, and this pattern is really great. https://www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/thylacine-sewing-pattern

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You did a great job!!!

Pattern from @palaeoplushies

This was quite the project! The pattern was a bit more complex then I'm used to, and I've never painted fleece, or any fabric for a project before! I made quite a few mistakes WHY ARE YOU PIGEON TOED?! but I think the end project looks good enough! Believe it or not this is the half size version, I can't imagine how big the original size must be!

Appreciation for the stripes (made from watered down dnd mini paints >_>, waste not want not)

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what kind of beans do you use for plushies? i want to refill my old blahaj with beans but don't know what to use

I used recycled polyester pellets from this website; https://poliplasticpellets.com/

#palaeoplushies asks

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Big!! Beanie!! Bettas!!!

They're looking for homes over at my webbed site Palaeoplushies.com

:C

#betta fish #fishblr #bettablr #palaeoplushies #plushie

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I´m having a quick sale until Friday 9am (CEST/GMT+2)

to get 20% off use code: 20FROGS at checkout!!

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Banteng (Bos javanicus)

Also known as tembadau, this species lives in the tropical forests and grasslands of Southeast Asia. The individual shown here is female; males are a much darker brown. Though they are endangered in the wild, they have also been domesticated, and are used for meat across Southeast Asia. The bull featured on Indonesia’s national emblem is actually a banteng!

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You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

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Wild rats tend to be agouti (brown)! They knew she wasn't wild because she's black and white. She was very lucky that the people who spotted her knew about domestic rats and knew wild ones don't come in black/white naturally! I think it'd be like spotting a black and white ferret and knowing it isn't a wild polecat. Some people wouldn't realise but some would!

She was found in a residential area, I think people were feeding her in their back gardens and they spotted her returning for a couple of weeks but couldn't capture her. They got the SSPCA out who caught her and she went to one of their rehoming centres.

Honestly I have no idea how she survived in January in Scotland but maybe she broke into someone's garage?? Rats haven't been domesticated as long as ferrets, but it's likely they were originally domesticated in China pre-1700s (theres Japanese rat care books from the late 1700s and it's implied they were traded with China?)

I had her tested for diseases that she could've picked up whilst she was straying and it doesn't look like she was in contact with wild rodents.

Everybody welcome the newest member of my family .. TRACEY THE RAT

Here's my first sight of her;

She was found as a stray, people had spotted her in their gardens for a couple of weeks and had failed to catch her. Eventually the SSPCA were called out and managed to detain the runaway.

She was at the SSPCA and nobody came forward for her, so when she came up for adoption I saw this young lone rat and knew I had to give her a home. Judging by the pictures she was molting into her adult coat (3-4 months old) and I thought she needed a friend (or three!)!

Following a period of quarantine, vet checkover and a negative test for leptospirosis, she was ready for me to introduce to my girls. I'm so glad to say the introductions have gone swimmingly and they are now cuddled up in bed together!

Tracey is surprisingly confident, slightly nippy when she's in her cage but friendly when she's out. She cheered up so much when she finally was allowed to meet her new friends, and I think she's going to make a great companion to me and my girls.

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Keiko swims with a pod of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a truly gigantic shastasaurid icthyosaur which lived about 205-202 million years ago at the end of the Triassic of what is now southern England and at 25 meters long is possibly the single largest Mesozoic marine reptile ever discovered, in her mermaid form.

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OPEN for custom plush commissions for the first time in years!

i´m only taking 2-5 slots for now and i´m looking basically for any kind of creature/animal/beast you might want me to make for you!!

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go check out my commission info if you´re interested!!

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If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

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Omg I love this... Thank you so much!

Everybody welcome the newest member of my family .. TRACEY THE RAT

Here's my first sight of her;

She was found as a stray, people had spotted her in their gardens for a couple of weeks and had failed to catch her. Eventually the SSPCA were called out and managed to detain the runaway.

She was at the SSPCA and nobody came forward for her, so when she came up for adoption I saw this young lone rat and knew I had to give her a home. Judging by the pictures she was molting into her adult coat (3-4 months old) and I thought she needed a friend (or three!)!

Following a period of quarantine, vet checkover and a negative test for leptospirosis, she was ready for me to introduce to my girls. I'm so glad to say the introductions have gone swimmingly and they are now cuddled up in bed together!

Tracey is surprisingly confident, slightly nippy when she's in her cage but friendly when she's out. She cheered up so much when she finally was allowed to meet her new friends, and I think she's going to make a great companion to me and my girls.

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ADHD

Occasionally I go and cull them... Occasionally.

Everybody welcome the newest member of my family .. TRACEY THE RAT

Here's my first sight of her;

She was found as a stray, people had spotted her in their gardens for a couple of weeks and had failed to catch her. Eventually the SSPCA were called out and managed to detain the runaway.

She was at the SSPCA and nobody came forward for her, so when she came up for adoption I saw this young lone rat and knew I had to give her a home. Judging by the pictures she was molting into her adult coat (3-4 months old) and I thought she needed a friend (or three!)!

Following a period of quarantine, vet checkover and a negative test for leptospirosis, she was ready for me to introduce to my girls. I'm so glad to say the introductions have gone swimmingly and they are now cuddled up in bed together!

Tracey is surprisingly confident, slightly nippy when she's in her cage but friendly when she's out. She cheered up so much when she finally was allowed to meet her new friends, and I think she's going to make a great companion to me and my girls.

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Tracey updates!

She no longer bites, my girls have taught her how to rat (including bite inhibition) and she's just the sweetest! She doesn't even nip through the bars!

Everybody welcome the newest member of my family .. TRACEY THE RAT

Here's my first sight of her;

She was found as a stray, people had spotted her in their gardens for a couple of weeks and had failed to catch her. Eventually the SSPCA were called out and managed to detain the runaway.

She was at the SSPCA and nobody came forward for her, so when she came up for adoption I saw this young lone rat and knew I had to give her a home. Judging by the pictures she was molting into her adult coat (3-4 months old) and I thought she needed a friend (or three!)!

Following a period of quarantine, vet checkover and a negative test for leptospirosis, she was ready for me to introduce to my girls. I'm so glad to say the introductions have gone swimmingly and they are now cuddled up in bed together!

Tracey is surprisingly confident, slightly nippy when she's in her cage but friendly when she's out. She cheered up so much when she finally was allowed to meet her new friends, and I think she's going to make a great companion to me and my girls.

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I meant to put this on my main

panther chameleon plushies!!!

based on the Amilobe locality of Furcifer pardalis

magnetic little hands for to grab things

soft

funny eyes

doesn´t need high humidty or complex care!

teddy joints for to move their little legs

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adopt one from my bog

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Today is World Heritage Day

Oiginally known as the International Monuments and Sites Da it is a global celebration of this planet’s heritage. It’s all about increasing the awareness of the importance of the diversity of cultural and natural heritage and preserving this heritage for future generations..

In Scotland we’re lucky enough to have no less than six UNESCO World Heritage Sites. they are;

St Kilda.

The remote Hebridean island archipelago is one of only two-dozen global locations with World Heritage Status for both natural and cultural significance.

The archipelago shares this honour with natural and cultural wonders such as the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu in Peru and Mount Athos in Greece.

I'd love to visit, but it is a wee bit too expensive for me.

Edinburgh Old and New Towns.

Some people have asked me which part of Edinburgh is covered by this title, well the simple answer is all of it!

The capital is a city of many eras, and its World Heritage Site comprises both the old and new towns. The Auld Toon has preserved much of its medieval street plan and Reformation-era buildings along the wynds of the Royal Mile.

The (relatively) New town contrasts this perfectly with neoclassical and Georgian architecture in regimented order.

Antonine Wall.

I've explored many parts of the wall. Constructed around 142 AD by the Romans, the Antonine Wall marked the north-west frontier of their empire. Stretching from the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde, the Antonine Wall separated the civilised Romans from the wild Caledonians.

The Heart of Neolithic Orkney

I've not visited The Northen Isles as yet, plans were in the early stages to go this year, but my friend ended up in hospita and is still recuprating, hopefully we can get something sorted when she becomes more able.

The Orkney mainland is synonymous with archaeology. It boasts the mysterious standing stones at the Ring of Brodgar and megaliths at Standing Stones of Stenness, as well as the 5,000-year-old settlement of Skara Brae and chambered cairn and passage grave of Maeshowe. Together these four sites form the heart of Neolithic Orkney, which was given World Heritage status in 1999.

The Forth Bridge

I remember as a bairn drawing and painting the bridge with a steam train going over it, but the train going over the "bumps!"

One of our most iconic and beloved bridges, the Forth Bridge was named a World Heritage Site in 2015 just after its 125th anniversary. The bridge was one of the most ambitious projects of its kind ever attempted at the time. When it opened it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world.

New Lanark

The last mill closed in the 1960s but a restoration programme saved the 18th-century village from falling into dilapidation.

It is an early example of utopian socialism in Scotland as well as a planned settlement – making New Lanark an important milestone in the historical development of urban planning. I have never visited, I must say I much prefer my ruined castles and abbeys.