What does everyone collect Zoo related ?

Dormitator said:
I have a rather handsome collection of zoo fridge magnets. Unfortunately because I'm too picky for my own good there are only 4 magnets in the collection:

A Steller's sea eagle from Moscow
A wisent from the New Forest wildlife park
A palm nut vulture from Paradise Park
A white rhino from Cotswold which was bought for me because I was told I didn't have enough to call it a collection...
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The offerings from Chester and Berlin have so far been the most impressive I’ve seen.
 
Milwaukee Man said:
I collect Christmas ornaments from the zoos I visit. I haven’t been successful with all of them, but managed to get a good chunk of them.
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I bought the baubles painted by the sea lions from Colchester this year, I thought that was a pretty sweet idea.
 
I got a magnet from each zoo in Berlin. Thinking of starting to collect them. Giant Panda and Snow Leopard were on the magnets.
 
Dormitator said:
I'll keep an eye out for the ones in Berlin then! I can't remember Chester's, other than there being at least one with an elephant...
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They have added some pleasant new offerings recently - I managed to pick up a couple of quite snazzy bear magnets!
 
beccasunbear said:
I also picked up a jaguar magnet and a black rhino magnet just to even things out!
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Sounds like quite the variety. May visit this weekend, still need to see the new penguin pool and find out the mystery of the new cat species hopefully.

Also, Chester Zoo has it's own set of Top Trumps! Who could forget about those?
 
PaleoMatt said:
Also, Chester Zoo has it's own set of Top Trumps! Who could forget about those?
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Yes! I spotted these on my last visit! I was very impressed with the idea when I saw that Colchester did them, I thought that was great, so I guess this is perhaps a new thing for me to start to collect, as I have now bought both sets.
 
beccasunbear said:
Yes! I spotted these on my last visit! I was very impressed with the idea when I saw that Colchester did them, I thought that was great, so I guess this is perhaps a new thing for me to start to collect, as I have now bought both sets.
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I hope this is a growing trend.
 
in each zoo i visit for the first time in each year i buy a postcard and a keyring, in addition i collect zooplans, zooguides and each and every receipt. i only buy sun bear, polar bear, oran utan and gorilla magnets for the fridge and mugs if i like them. my most loved mug is the sun bear mug from colchester zoo :D

and all the birds feathers i find
 
I'm slowly building a collection of Bristol zoo "stuff" - guidebooks, leaflets, books, badges and keyrings.

In general I try to buy a badge from each zoo I go to... if they dont have one I'll get a keyring. Then I'll always get the leaflet and a guidebook :)
 
On my last three zoo visits I have got a "magnetic monkey," I have four of them now because the first of those visits was for my birthday 50 and my little nephew bought me one too. The one I bought at Barcelona is actually a lemur and the only one of the four to have a tail. :)
 
I have a pretty good collection of Zoo Guides from Europe. Lately it’s been Magnets. I also have a great collection of animal figurines (although many of them are not directly from Zoos, I was introduced to CollectA at a Zoo gift shop in Texas).
 
snowleopard said:
I've got a collection of plastic zoo animals from my childhood that totals more than 800. I've got a categorized collection of zoo maps that recently surpassed 1,500. I've got perhaps 80 zoo cups/mugs, at least 175 guidebooks and 200 or more zoo books. Just about everything that I just listed is worthless to 99% of the people that I've ever met in my lifetime but for me much of it is priceless.
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I used to collect plastic animals, i have, like, 2k. But I only collect like schleich and companies similar to those now.
 
I still regret not getting artis de partis from Amsterdam. And that coati coin purse from Kobe animal kingdom.
 
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