Pat Flannery writes:
Here's a good one for you: instead of taking bush babies clean up to the
station and then transporting them back to various locations on Earth,
wouldn't it have made more sense for Floyd just to contact a pet shop in the
vicinity of his home and have them deliver one?
In the script the bush baby is going to get to the house the next day, so they
must have a lot of those spaceliners showing up on a daily basis and taking
cargo back to a lot of different cities on Earth.

Um, I always assumed this was a stuffed animal?

"What do you want for your birthday sweetie?"

"A Tasmanian Devil, daddy..."

"OK sweetheart. I'll send you one tomorrow, let's let it be a surprise
for your mother. So be sure to keep it our secret for now ok?"

;-)

Dave