Stuffed Animals
Acquisitioners Tales

Wow! That’s a mouthful. As promised, this is Finn, (and not V, who’s back on some island searching for exhibits with Karl – that’s a story for next time), here to report the outcomes of the Stuffed Zoo Sandbox Sumo match between Mocha the Stuffed Toad and Al Binoche the Stuffed White Tiger. Both are [...]

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Hi everyone,
We’re putting the Stuffed Sumo results on hold for a moment in order to bring you a fun, interactive stuffed animal game. This is based on Finn’s first ACTUAL rainy-day activity (Sunday was very dreary here, and the animals wanted to stay inside).
Finn had everyone playing a classic – drawing each other’s silhouettes! And [...]

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Okay, blog-followers, remember Dr. Parker’s new invention, the scuba-stuffocator (the one KARL broke on his first time using)? Well, the good scientist has been working harder on it, and has run tests on a new remote version of scuba-stuffocation technology. This is great news for the Zoo, as it could lead to more underwater animal [...]

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Hi everyone,
I’m sure it says somewhere that this is V posting this, but it’s actually me, Finn. V and Karl haven’t returned to the SZ from their Platypus thingie yet. But as you may know, I am now in charge of rainy-day activities and anti-boredom acts here at the zoo.
And as I’ve been continuing [...]

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(told by SZ correspondent Dr. Parker)
With the hull of their boat once again torn, Stuffed Zoo acquisitioners Karl and V survived their first night shipwrecked on Avocado Island, where they’ve been haunted by a palindrome-speaking stuffed monkey, Grunty.
“I wonder what happened to Grunty,” V said. “And I wonder if there are others like him on [...]

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(story told by SZ correspondent Dr. Parker)
. . . It was nearly midnight when the two brave, intrepid acquisitioners landed their small boat on Avocado Island – the southernmost island in the famed Platypus Archipelago. It was a moonless night, and the two had almost missed seeing the island completely. But just before the [...]

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Well, as you know, another season of stuffocating new animals for our exhibits is about to be underway. Of, course, there have been some snags.
Our summer plans included reaching the southern tip of the Platypus Archipelago, by way of the Blue Ink strait. But, as we began packing for our boating trip (taking much advice [...]

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Hi everyone, V here. While Karl and I gear up for another summer season of stuffocation, things at the SZ are coming more alive. Hibernation season is over, and many of our stuffed animals are coming out after a looooong nap. Bleary-eyed and hungry, they rejoin their animal friends:
Ceilia the Stuffed Bear for example, came [...]

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Hi everyone, V here. Karl and I have been away from SZ most of the winter on our rainforest trip (still no sign of the hampster/seal/pig creature, but it continues to appear in my dreams, and I will not give up), and we’re here for just a few weeks before we set out again on [...]

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Hi everyone, V here. It’s been a while since I checked in at the SZ blog. Believe me, I have been busy. You may remember that, a while back, I began a quest in the rain forest for a mysterious animal that had been haunting my dreams. Well, after much work and little success, Karl [...]

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After a long day of ice-cream tasting at the local ice cream experimentation facility, or ICEF, Abby and Jane decided to catch a movie. There was a theater in town they’d never been to before, and the pistachio-cheddar-mint crunch they had for lunch left them feeling adventurous.
They entered the Yrrab Newo Cinema at four p.m. [...]

Continue reading “How Bainbridge Saved the Day, part one” »

Our very own in-house Bearded Tamarin – known as Gordon – has a reputation for being a wise and well-traveled primate. He often answers questions with a story, stroking his gray beard-hairs thoughtfully.
But one thing has been bothering the New-World monkey’s disciples: none of Gordon’s stories have to do with the jungle – or South [...]

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Well, this weekend brought the big StuffedZoo Spring event, and boy, no one could have expected the results. The First Annual StuffedZoo Cross-Continental Land-Mammal Head-to-Head Chess Showdown was more than a nail-biter; it was the stuffed animal event of the year.
As you may know from the previous blog entry, our competitors were Arthur the Stuffed [...]

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As Karl and I waited tensely in the shadows, listening closely for what the stuffed animal herd – waiting below the tallest fir tree in the StuffedZoo woods – were about to say, we pondered what all-important questions these furry creatures had. What is the purpose of life as a stuffed animal? How do you [...]

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One of the best things about the StuffedZoo is all the different experiences and expertise that comes together under one roof. Some animals are great at changing tires (Arthur Armadillo and Big Bill the Stuffed Gorilla), some are experts in translating Chinese poetry (Sherbert the Stuffed Fish), while still others are aspiring private detectives (Bubo [...]

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Hi everyone, Karl, StuffedZoo acquisitioner here.
I’m sure you are all wondering what it was I first caught with Dr. Parker’s amazing scuba-stuffocating technology. To tell the truth, it all happened so fast, I wasn’t sure what I had at the time, either. But I got back to land, repaired the damage that had been done [...]

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Hello, this is Dr. Parker, and the StuffedZoo has commissioned me to work on new, top-secret Stuffocator technology. By now, you should know that what I am working on involves taking patented Stuffocator technology deep under the sea. The Stuffed Sea is now known to hold many, many species thought impossible before.
Well, while Karl and [...]

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Traveling through the StuffedZoo exhibits, you may have noticed that our house chameleon, Bentaro, doesn’t exactly blend in with his surroundings very often. We’ll let Bentaro speak for himself to explain why:

“Most chameleons you see – and most of the ones I’ve known, live in trees. So, if you want to blend in with your [...]

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Well, we’ve managed to capture a few photos, and even a transcription of some jokes, from Celene, our very own stuffed gray seal, at his first night as a stand-up comedian. The house was packed, and we got there late (we’d like to see how easily YOU could pack a giraffe, three monkeys, a yak, [...]

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Well, this winter was the first-ever StuffedZoo-sponsored snowball fight event, and things couldn’t have gone better. The annual SZPSFE event is a no-holds-barred, every-player-for-themselves snowball fight between over 300 types of primates, including both Greater and Lesser apes, Old World and New. The fight was a pre-arranged four and a half hours, with a first-prize [...]

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