Wildlife Adoption Programs

My adopted wild animal family:

• African Wild Dog
• Palette surgeonfish
• Stingray
• Clownfish
• Cownose ray
• Sturgeon
• Leopard shark
• Hyena [added later]
• Flamingo
• Hermit crab
• Walrus
• Kangaroo
• Polar bear
• Elephant, Giraffe, Wallaby, Golden Eagle, Seahorse [added later]

[names: Picasso, Ilsa, Starla (marbled ribbontail), Tango (only one whose plush didn't come from the charity), Bess, Tom Sturgeron, Leopold, Jasiri, Rick, Kessie, Chumley, Reuben, Snocap, Eloise, Gerard, Rocko or Wally B. except it appears to be a female-so how 'bout, Melba. Or Claudette? xD Samantha. Seabiscuit.]
I keep most of their posters, photos, certificates, etc. In a Lisa Frank box, natch.

LADY ELEPHANTS: Elsa, Elle, Electra, Elisa, Elise (lice), Eloise, Elodie, Elaine, Eldora, Eleanor, Elena, Elata, Ellamay, Elmyra, Elga, Elrica, Eldrida, Elfrida, Elysia, Elissa, Elberta, Ella, Ellie, Eliza, Elsie, Elma, Elna, Elnora, Ellen, Elvina, Elva/via/vie/fie, Elvira/vire/vera, Elizabeth/Elizabetta/Elisabet/Elspeth. [BOYS PG. 163-64, ELBERT-ELWOOD (+"ELY" VARIATION.)]

Other favorite species @ WWF:

1. Hyena (love the BROWN as well as the spotted you always see)
   
2. Macaw*
3. Pangolin*
4. Honey badger (though I prefer regular badger, badger, badger, mushroom mushroom, snake ahh snake oohh it's a snake)
5. California condor
6. seahorse*
7. tree frog*
8. octopus*
9. bighorn sheep*
10. [bactrian] camel*
11. sockeye salmon [ELLA 💚]
    
12. rockhopper
13. hammerhead
14. anaconda
15. prairie chicken
16. cheetah*
17. serval
18. snowy owl
19. pronghorn
20. capybara
21. arctic hare
22. spotted turtle
23. wolverine
24. koala
25. arctic fox
    
26. fennec
    
27. great white shark
28. zebra
29. okapi
30. red-tailed hawk
31. woodpecker
32. barn owl
33. emerald hummingbird
34. tarantula
35. monarch butterfly
36. whale shark
37. warthog
38. red fox
39. gray wolf
40. leopard
41. jaguar
42. lion(ess)
43. golden lion tamarin
44. llama
45. beluga
46. red maned wolf [/143] {SEE MORE=11/13/22 COMMENT BELOW}
    

Fave bucket animals: Spotted eagle ray*, pink river dolphin, bonnethead shark; dart frogs* (esp. red/blue+red/black)

Other favorites @ NWF:

1. horseshoe crab*
2. blue crab*
3. western diamondback
4. northern cardinal
5. great blue heron
6. peregrine falcon
7. roadrunner
8. sandhill crane
9. great horned/gray owls
10. mallard
11. eastern bluebird
12. american goldfinch/robin
13. redheaded woodpecker
14. ruby-throated hummingbird
15. armadillo
16. horned lizard
17. red-eyed tree frog
18. mountain goat
19. red wolf
20. whitetailed deer
21. snowshoe hare
22. desert tortoise  [/88] {SEE MORE=11/13/22 COMMENT BELOW}

*my plush/plastic/ceramic/metal/glass/whatever versions came from elsewhere (Rio, June, Preston, Gabi, Dagger, Cha-Cha, Maya, Dreamy, Rocky, Raymond, Royce, Renny, Leroy, Armor, Cyril, etc. etc. etc.)

Of course the more I think about it, we've got waaayyy more than I'd initially asterisked. At least 30 that come to mind quickly, and many versions of many--especially the favorite species, or more common ones. Ultimately got every livin' bean & thin in some form. x~} I'd probably been considering the ones most similar to the adoption gifts, most unique, faves that leap to mind first, whatever.
How I miss my yellow IKEA camels with the one-red/one-blue humps and animal cracker-like poked-in eyes! ;; And Connie the koala, & Pawla the "Komputer" Gigapet one. (And Gloria the grape...Joe's owl & watermelon, Fred's moose & lemon [Fajita made the realistic trio w/ the owl & moose], my white happy face--for some reason we only retained Fred's red & Joe's yellow...Turkey the turquoise doggo, Valentina Poodle...etc., etc...)
Ofc I've many rays, sharks, other fish, flamingos, crabs...
Would probably pick a hyena next (& use either Jasiri or Shenzi as the name!) {Which I did indeed--Jasiri, adopted in honor of Carice's bday 2019}

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