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Rothchild Museum of Natural History. Tring, England
Its the largest natural history collection assembled by a single human. The number of taxidermies, the selection, & the quality of them are amazing. If you are in England, & you enjoy natural history museums, you MUST go to Tring!

Anyway, I went mostly for the thylacine. (Many thanks to Thylobscene for letting me know about this museum.) The museum has both a skin & a skeleton on display. Both are in excellent quality & well done.

The little plush thylacine is one of my traveling companions, Marruk.
And, for anyone who is wondering what that thing between the legs is, this is a male animal & that is the scrotum.
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:iconkalaharimeerkatfan:
I want a cute little Thylacine plushie too. These creatures were just beautiful and it's a shame they now dead before they could be studied. I wanted to learn how they lived their daily lives and once more humans ruin it.
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:icont-subgenius:
In the US, cheapest way to get one is from buildadino.com They have a large 20in and a mini thylacine. Both are decently made and the larger one will fit into most of the Build-a-Bear clothes.
This is mine
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Joan Dixon did a decent overview for the Fauna of Australia series back in 1991. Its only 9 pages but covers a fair amount.
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Dr. Eric Guiler put out 2 books with an amazing amount of information, but they have been long out of print and are quite pricey. However, you can sometimes find David Owen's book on them for cheap on Amazon. Not as good, but comes in a close behind Guiler's work
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:iconkalaharimeerkatfan:
OMG...I love it! (and that Woolly Mammoth is also good made), it's wonderful, I hope I can get it.

It just doesn't seem the same when you look at all the nature shows with the Tasmanian devils and other, but it is sad only so few people seem to care about these amazing creatures, besides the dingo they were the other large predator.
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:icont-subgenius:
Glad I can help :)

True. But, I think its more they do not know about animals like the thylacine that have gone extinct recently. There is an emphasis on animals that are endangered now, but even as near back as the 1930s, there were few people who had a concept that losing large predators were a bad thing for the ecosystem.
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~MissKillerSparkles Oct 28, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
That is good quality~

and where did you get that plushie?
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:icont-subgenius:
Ebay, many years ago. This one is the smaller one listed on Exton Australia's website www.extonaustralia.com/category93_2.htm

Though, if might be cheaper to snag one from www.buildadino.com . They have both a small and a large; however I do not have either one so Im not sure of their overall quality.
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*AoiKita Oct 11, 2009  Student General Artist
aw,I want the stuffy >_>...where can you get them?
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:iconrabidleroy:
This is one great taxidermy of a thylacine to ever exist. And to think it was a guy!
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:icont-subgenius:
I was quite happy with all the taxidermies in the Rothchild Museum of natural history. Top notch work on all accounts. Theres a couple other make thylacines I have seen and photographed. Ones in the British Natural History Museum in London and the other is at the Royal Museum of Scotland in edinburgh Scotland.
As far as females, there is one in a museum at Glasgow (not sure which one, I took a picture of it when it was in Edinburgh) and another at the Harvard Natural History Museum in Boston.
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gorgeous image..it just makes me sad to know it was humans who killed off this gorgeous creature
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