"S" is for Siamang, Stegasaurus, and a lot of other animals, too!

Look at this beautiful siamang jewelry! It comes in a variety of colors and unique beads to complement or match. You can choose earrings, pin or pendant.

We found lots of animals in Tapir and Friends online gift shop that begin with the letter "S"! Just for starters, here are four beautiful hand-made, hand-painted dog pins! You can see these dogs and a large selectin of our other animal jewelry in our web album. The album will give you a link back to our order page. Pictured above is our shiba inu dog pin.

Here's our shih tsu dog pin.

Our samoyed portrait pin.

And our wheaten Skye terrier dog pin.

We discovered that quite a number of our plastic sea life animals start with "S." What about this colorful sea snail?

Toy seahorse models are always a favorite. I love the colors on this stand-up plastic seahorse!

This bright seahorse is actually a 3-D plastic puzzle. We have lots of animal puzzles, and many of them are sea animals.

We even have plastic sea cucumbers!

We have lots of sharks, and shark starts with "S," but I thought we'd get specific and show you our sand tiger shark stuffed toy. It's been one of our most popular animals. Did I get a lot of "s" sounds in that first sentence :)

Look how colorful our Spinosaurus 3-D puzzle is! What fun! We also have Stegosaurus. See below. He's purple and red!

We have a number of nice plastic squid as well. The one shown below is our giant squid, which comes in two sizes.

Starfish are pretty! This one comes in blue, but we have just about any color you could want. Check them all out with the "starfish" link. The current technical name for them is "sea stars," because they are not really fish, but the old name works for us, too. We grew up with the name "starfish," and it brings back memories of days at the beach!

This little guy is a plastic skate. We have plastic toy or replica skates and rays in quite a few sizes and colors.

Animal toys and models that start with "K"

Take a look at this delightful komodo dragon! He looks quite real and is made of very sturdy plastic. The komodo dragon is actually a very big monitor lizard. We have several views of this plastic replica in our online gift shop. Just click on the link above!

How about this king cobra 3-D plastic puzzle? It's one of a nice variety of plastic puzzles we carry online. We have reptiles, mammals, dinosaurs, and more. Come see all of our animal puzzles here! When you're finished putting them together, you use them as a display or take them apart and keep them in their plastic carrying case for another time.

"K" is for kangaroo! We have several in our store. The kangaroo jewelry shown above is a beautiful lifelike pin hand-made and hand-painted in the USA. It's very sturdy and durable, and we have many, many other jewelry animals and fish as well.

This is one of our plastic kangaroo replicas. We also have a delightful and realistic-looking kangaroo mom and baby in our store. See all of our kangaroo models and toys here!

Well, "K" is also for Koala. Here's a replica koala mom and baby (joey) you can find in our online store. Aren't they adorable? We have several other koalas, too.

New plastic jellyfish at Tapir and Friends

Our new plastic jellyfish is now online and ready to order. It's realistic and durable, and is just as interesting in the underside view below as it is in the upright view. We're pleased to add this wonderful sea creature to our extensive collection of sea life educational toys and collectible replicas.

Another plastic fish gone :(

Now it's our popular sheephead plastic fish that is gone. We're unable to get any more, but we like to acknowledge some of our favorites and yours from time to time when we have to take them off of the web site. It's also a good time to remember, that if you love a certain animal in our online store, it's good to buy it while we have it! Some are with us for many years, and some have disappeared soon after they go online. In that case, it's frustrating for us, because we've found something that we and our customers both like, and then we can't get more!

OUR GOAL

We continually try to stock the unusual REALISTIC animal and fish toys, replicas and collectibles in affordable price ranges, and we are particularly interested when a manufacturer comes up with something where the species is recognizable. Over the years, we've found that it's not so easy to find animals in this category. Often the color will be a little off (or way off!), or an animal with the right coloring will have red eyes! Or it looks like a mix of several species. Still, we do our best to find them for you, and it's our pleasure to stock the gift shop with these fun and useful toys and collectibles. Many, many students have completed their school projects to get an "A" with animals from our store. They have also been purchased by museums, zoos, and for corporate events as well as by collectors and individuals who thought they would be fun to have or give as unique a gift. Come see our inventory here! We ship around the world.