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An animal bath or balneum animale is a medical treatment in which the skin or carcass of a freshly slaughtered animal is wrapped around the patient. [1] The treatment's goal is transference of the animal's vitality to the patient, with the warmth of the treatment perhaps having a therapeutic effect .
Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys (including rubber ducks) marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements. Ebbesmeyer studied the movements of a consignment of 28,800 Friendly Floatees—yellow ducks, red beavers, blue turtles, and ...
Rubbadubbers is a British stop-motion children's television series produced by HIT Entertainment, with animation production by Hot Animation.The series was broadcast in the UK on BBC2 and CBeebies from 2 September 2002 to 14 February 2005.
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them is a book by Donovan Hohn concerning 28,800 plastic ducks and other toys, known as the Friendly Floatees, which were washed overboard from a container ship in the Pacific Ocean on 10 January 1992 and have subsequently ...
Expandable water toys (also grow-in-water toys or grow monsters) are novelty items made from a superabsorbent polymer. They are toys that expand after putting them into water for anything from a few hours up to several days, depending on size. They shrink in saltwater or when exposed to air.
A house sparrow having a dust bath Sparrows dust bathing. Dust bathing (also called sand bathing) is an animal behavior characterized by rolling or moving around in dust, dry earth or sand, with the likely purpose of removing parasites from fur, feathers or skin. [1]
Animal figurines are figurines that represent animals, either as decorative pieces, toys or collectibles. They are often made of plastic, ceramics, or metal. The earthenware Staffordshire figures of the 18th and 19th centuries were enormously popular, with Staffordshire dog figurines the most popular; these were typically made in pairs.
Soaky was the name of a brand of bubble bath produced by Colgate-Palmolive. The product was referred to as "The Fun Bath" on its label and was targeted at young children. [1] Soaky's major selling point was that the bottles the bubble bath came in could be reused as toy figures once the contents were used up.