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We bring you the finest handmade stuffed plush animals in the World
Big Furry Friends is your source for Lifesize, Life Size, Life-like and Realistic Large Plush Stuffed Animals
Not just great gifts for children and adults, these beautiful pieces make great corporate gifts, baby gifts and display pieces for homes, office and businesses, theatrical displays, commercial and movie props......
All our animals are hand-made from of the finest plush stuffed animal artisans in the world. They are life-like, some lifesize and all realistic with careful attention to detail. They make an impressive gift whether corporate or personal, but also make a statement as a corporate mascot or display at your company's headquarters. Our plush animals are used for staging homes for sale, creating themed weddings, conventions and events where these furry friends add a real 'wow' factor. Our life-like plush stuffed animals have also been used in museums, as well as theatrical props in movies, commercials and on live stage productions all over the world. What is contained here is a sampling of what our artisans have to offer...
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Life Size Lifesize and Large Realistic Life-Like Plush Stuffed Animals - Kiwi
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Kiwi
Handmade
Item # 48RM03
Size: 6.75"L x 4.75"W x 8"H
Price: $ 33
This is a hand-crafted collection of realistic plush, sometimes lifesize animals. The "coat" of each animal is meticulously cut by hand, never stamped out by machine. Gentle paws, swishing tails, and especially soulful eyes and faces are lovingly detailed to give each animal a life-like look.
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Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae.
At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world. There are five recognised species, all of which are endangered; all species have been adversely affected by historic deforestation but currently large areas of their forest habitat are well protected in reserves and national parks. At present, the greatest threat to their survival is predation by invasive mammalian predators.
The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand – indeed, the association is so strong that the term Kiwi is used, all over the world, as the colloquial demonym for New Zealanders.
Maori traditionally believe that kiwi are under the protection of Tane Mahuta, god of the forest. Kiwi feathers are particularly important to Maori, as they are used for kahu-kiwi – ceremonial cloaks. Today, while kiwi feathers are still used, they are gathered from kiwi that die naturally or through road accidents or predation, and Maori no longer hunt kiwi, but consider themselves their guardians.
The first kiwi specimen to be studied by Europeans was a kiwi skin brought to George Shaw by Captain Andrew Barclay aboard the ship Providence, who was reported to have been given it by a sealer in Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) around 1811. George Shaw gave the kiwi its scientific name and drew sketches of the way he imagined a live bird to look which appeared as plates 1057 and 1058 in volume 24 of The Naturalist's Miscellany[Full citation needed] in 1813.
The London Zoo was the first zoo to hold a kiwi, in 1851. The first captive breeding took place in 1945. As of 2007 only 13 zoos outside Australasia hold kiwi. The Frankfurt Zoo has 12, the Berlin Zoo has 7, Walsrode Bird Park has 1, the Alphen Birdpark in the Netherlands has 3, the San Diego Zoo has 5, the San Diego Wild Animal Park has 1, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park has 5, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute has 1 and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio has 3.
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