when I was a kid, one of my most prized possessions was a set of small animals. My mom had told me that one animal used to be given along with a pack of a toothpaste - I forget which brand it was. It was a sort of a collectible. This was a long time before Hamley's and the neatly packed set of assorted animals on its shelves. I remember looking at the small monkey and deer and wondering if there were any zebras or kangaroos in the set at any time.

The reason I remembered that toy animal set after all these years is because I read a reference to a site in one of GEO's articles - http://wild-wonders.com/.

Trees, flowers, birds and animals - they seem to have documented so much. :-)