Most beautiful sculptures at zoos ?

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Yes, me too, I think the elephant sculpture has a sort of Picasso line drawing type look to it doesn't it ?

Photo taken at Chester in September 2016. I remember little about them apart from thinking them a tad garish, and I took the photo because they depicted my favourite animal. They look as though they're made from some sort of material - plastic? - stretched over a frame. I couldn't snap the whole group as there were children playing round them.

Wow, these are very well done, but yes they are a bit garish aren't they ?

They do have a creepy realism to them though, I think it is something about the posture , looks like they could come alive or something.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Red panda sculpture at the Bronx zoo, USA:

Where in the zoo is this? It doesn't look familiar to me at all and I couldn't find it in the gallery.

~Thylo

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Where in the zoo is this? It doesn't look familiar to me at all and I couldn't find it in the gallery.

~Thylo

I have no idea Thylo, have never visited that zoo, just found it in the gallery and thought it was quite a striking sculpture.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

You're welcome

The bust you shared a photo of is an Indian Rhino, but inside the building there are more busts, one of which is of a Sumatran Rhino. I've got a photo of the bust somewhere and will make an attempt to post it one of these days (I am so very backed up on photo uploads...). I might have photos of the World of Reptile busts as well.

I'm not sure if there are photos of the panther statues on here. If there aren't, I can try and remedy that someday.

~Thylo

Yeah that would be great if you could , would be interesting to see those shots indeed.

Beyond sculptures and just in general terms I think that the Bronx zoo is probably in my opinion the best zoo in the USA.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I have no idea Thylo, have never visited that zoo, just found it in the gallery and thought it was quite a striking sculpture.

I found the photo, it's actually from the Brookfield Zoo, not Bronx.

~Thylo

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

I found the photo, it's actually from the Brookfield Zoo, not Bronx.

~Thylo

My bad, must have been a typo as the names sound ever so slightly similar.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Nile monitor lizard sculpture at Denver zoo, USA:

Photo credit to @snowleopard.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Interesting and enormous salamander sculpture at ABQ Biopark, USA:

Prarie dog sculpture at ABQ Biopark:

Bison sculptures at ABQ:

Photo credit to @Giant Eland and @geomorph.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Interesting Marlin sculpture at the National zoo, USA.

This art was made from plastic trash washed on beaches from the sea and created to raise awareness of human impacts on marine ecosystems:

Photo credit to @Andrew_NZP.

 

[TinoPup]

Interesting Marlin sculpture at the National zoo, USA.

This art was made from plastic trash washed on beaches from the sea and created to raise awareness of human impacts on marine ecosystems:

Photo credit to @Andrew_NZP.

These were a temporary thing, akin to the lego stuff zoos have been doing. There were a bunch of them.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

These were a temporary thing, akin to the lego stuff zoos have been doing. There were a bunch of them.

Yes I thought so , but still they are quite interesting and a really novel way of educating the public on the issue of plastics within marine ecosystems / foodchains.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Bull frog sculpture at the Oakland zoo, USA:

Photo credits to @geomorph.

 

[geomorph]

Detroit Zoo:



Photo taken by geomorph.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

These are quite beautiful sculptures given the skill and symbolism of these, on display at the Pittsburgh zoo, USA.

These sculptures are made from wire snares collected in African game reserves by local communities and crafted to portray animals often caught in snares:

Photo credit to @geomorph.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Bronze otter sculpture outside otter enclosure, Rotterdam zoo, the Netherlands:

Photo credits to @Ned.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Polar bear sculptures at Cleveland Metroparks zoo, USA:

Photo credits to @jusko88.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Koala sculptures at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo , USA:

Photo credit to @snowleopard.

 

[Ned]

Overview of panda enclosure

• Ned
• 23 Feb 2020

A real panda plus two fake pandas outside the enclosure

Thought I'd add this photo of the Giant Panda statue at Ouwehands with a real panda in the foreground.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Overview of panda enclosure

• Ned
• 23 Feb 2020

A real panda plus two fake pandas outside the enclosure

Thought I'd add this photo of the Giant Panda statue at Ouwehands with a real panda in the foreground.

Thanks for sharing @Ned !

I actually thought for a minute that it was three panda sculptures !

 

[geomorph]

Polar bear sculptures at Cleveland Metroparks zoo, USA:

Photo credits to @jusko88.

Here is my own shot of this pair at Cleveland Zoo:



Photo taken by geomorph.