World Encyclopedia of Animals

Seven animals that made the African plains and the northern forests legendary — a square-lipped white rhino, a zebra in its famous stripes, a hippo mid-roar, the fastest cat alive, a rare white Bengal tiger and a tufted Eurasian lynx, joined by a warthog bonus figure. Each is a hand-painted, museum-style trophy bust with a magnetic head that doubles as a fridge magnet: a pocket natural-history museum, with a story behind every exhibit.

White Rhinoceros

The largest rhino on Earth, with a wide, square lip made for mowing grass. Once reduced to fewer than a hundred animals, it became one of conservation’s great comebacks.

Zebra

Every zebra’s stripes are unique — and the leading theory says they exist to keep biting flies from landing. The nameplate’s Hippotigris literally means ‘horse-tiger.’

Hippopotamus

That open mouth isn’t a yawn — it’s a warning, flashing canines that never stop growing. The ‘river horse’ is a closer cousin to whales than to pigs.

Cheetah

The fastest land animal alive, able to hit highway speed in about three seconds. It can’t roar — it chirps like a bird.

Bengal Tiger

Sculpted in the legendary white coat — not albino, but a single recessive gene that switches off the orange and keeps the stripes. Most white tigers today descend from one cub, Mohan.

Eurasian Lynx

Europe’s third-largest predator, with tufted ears, a flared ruff and snowshoe paws — a silent forest hunter few people ever see.

Common Warthog

Vol.3’s collector’s bonus figure. Its ‘warts’ are protective face pads, it grazes on its knees, and it backs into its burrow tusks first.

Made only as the maker’s pre-order bonus and never reproduced — shown here to complete the encyclopedia.