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A herd of water buffaloes graze peacefully in the high March grass on the Serengetti. We have many plastic hoofed animals and can find you a perfect plastic water buffalo replica at Tapir and Friends Animal Store.

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Masai Giraffes

There are many Masai giraffes in the wildlife refuges in Tanzania, but I never got bored watching them. Tapir and Friends Animal Store has many different plastic giraffe replicas and some giraffe puppets.

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lion in wait?

If you were in 90 degree heat with high humidity and lots of flies you'd probably look for cool mud to "lie-in." There are many plastic lion replicas and some stuffed lions too at Tapir and Friends Animal Store.

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Cheating Cheetahs?

Having a high vantage point over the savannah isn't fair is it?

This cheetah family lives in Tanzania. Tapir and Friends Animal Store have wonderful plastic cheetahs and stuffed cheetah replicas.

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New Gnu

This post replaces an earlier post where the photo of this wildebeest was blurred. This hoofed animal lives along the Ngorogoro Crater in Tanzania. There are many wonderful plastic and stuffed hoofed animals available at Tapir and Friends Animal Store.

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Plastic zebras?

Who gets tired of seeing zebras? Are they black with white stripes or vice versa? We have large quantities of plastic zebra replicas at Tapir and Friends Animal Store.

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What's Gnu?

A wildebeest looks over at us from an open space at the Ngorogoro Crater in Tanzania. This is a resident and does not migrate. There are many plastic hoofed animal replicas at Tapir and Friends Wildlife Animal Store.

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Cute and cuddly warthog?

On a recent trip to Tanzania to the Serengeti Wildlife Preserve, my friend Lee snapped this picture of a male warthog. We have a beautiful plastic warthog replica available in our Tapir and Friends Wildlife Animal Store.

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NEW - Plastic Box Fish at Tapir and Friends

F1945 B155 - Plastic Boxfish, 4 inches long

Order here

This cute plastic box fish is new at Tapir and Friends Online Animal Store.

Our Plastic Boxfish

This engaging, realistic-looking plastic boxfish miniature is made of hollow flexible plastic with bendable fins. IT FLOATS! This replica has detailed scales and is painted turquoise blue and yellow. Our toy box fish has distinct black eyes and a red mouth and is 4 inches long from tail to the tips of its frontal protrusions.This blue and yellow boxfish makes for a nice pet, fits into a shoebox diorama, or serves as a great collectible. Our plastic blue and yellow boxfish is for decoration or play only. Even though it floats, it should NOT be put in your aquarium with living fish. Check out our other fish toys and gifts.

About Boxfish

Boxfishes are of the family Ostraciidae and are closely related to pufferfish, cowfish and trunkfish. They are a common tropical fish and are found in reefs throughout tropical waters mainly in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean. They come in a variety of different colors, and are notable for the hexagonal or "honeycomb" patterns in their skin and box-like bony skeletons. They swim in a rowing manner. Boxfish have large armour-like scales fused together to form a triangular box-shape. These brightly colored reef fish swim very slowly and some species excude a poisonous substance from their skin which discourages predators.

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What A Cake!

Wow! Our thanks to Kathy for sending this photo of the WONDERFUL cake she made for Jamie, who likes fish! Kathy purchased some of the critters you see here from our online animal-themed gift shop. As you can see, we specialize in realistic animals. In this case, they needed to be plastic, but we also carry stuffed animals. Kathy gathered the materials for this amazing cake from various sources, and we are glad to be one of them. We recognize, among other things, a yellow-green moray eel, a sea turtle, a spotted eagle ray, and several fish. You can check them out on our fish page, and our aquatic animals page.

I love the blue fish on the top. It's not one of ours, so maybe we have to do some investigating to see if we can get them :)

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