Noah's Arc
The Old Testament says that Noah got the order to built an arc and to take his family and a pair of each animal with him when the earth will be flooded. This was done. To find out when the Deluge would be ended and land could be seen again, Noah frequently did sent out a pigeon to bring him a limb of a tree. This happened after ten lunar months, it is said. In these days often a white pidgeon with an olive branch can be seen.
In our arc we house all those plush animals which are either threatened or already extinct as a real animal in nature or which are difficult for us to sort somehow.