Kon-Tiki itself was made of nine balsa would tree trunks lashed together with hemp rope.
The male albino ferret has been named Kon-Tiki after a famous 1940s raft expedition across the Pacific Ocean.
Their journey began when the Kon-Tiki was towed 50 miles out to sea by a Peruvian naval tug.
Manager Becky Lloyd said Kon-Tiki was very tolerant despite all the treatment it had received for sores and ticks.
The Kon-Tiki expedition was just the start of his efforts to shape it.
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In 2006 Heyerdahl's 29-year old grandson Olav set out from Callao, Peru, to retrace the journey of the Kon-Tiki in his own boat.
Kon-Tiki was the name of the balsa wood raft which was used to cross the Pacific Ocean in 1947 in a journey of 8, 000km (4, 900 miles).
Three days later the Kon-Tiki struck a reef and the crew was beached on an uninhabited islet of Raroia Island -- 101 days and 4, 338 miles from Peru.
The Plastiki's name is wordplay off the "Kon-Tiki, " a balsa raft made famous by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, who in 1947 sailed the vessel from Peru to the Polynesian islands.
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Using balsa wood and other materials that would have been available in antiquity, Mr Heyerdahl built the Kon-Tiki, named after a mythical South American king said to have been fleeing for his life, and launched her from Peru.
There were plenty of durable classics lying around -- like Kon-Tiki, the story of Thor Heyerdahls excursion across the Pacific on a raft, and The Worst Journey in the World, about Robert Falcon Scotts disastrous expedition to the South Pole.
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