What's odd is that the proportions are all wrong... like the designer had never actually seen a real tree!
And one over-sized fake tree by itself never looks right.
I am not sure on this but I think its so 'fat' because the Colobus monkeys were supposed to access the Gorilla enclosure through the inside of this tree somehow(?).
Thats also the reason there's only one fake tree in the enclosure- its for the Colobus to use- or it was until the whole idea seemed to flop.
I am not sure on this but I think its so 'fat' because the Colobus monkeys were supposed to access the Gorilla enclosure through the inside of this tree somehow(?).
Thats also the reason there's only one fake tree in the enclosure- its for the Colobus to use- or it was until the whole idea seemed to flop.
I can understand how function needs to be accommodated in such a thing, but if the result looks like psychedelic sculpture than perhaps a different design ought to have been looked at.
Even so, any single mega-fake tree is going to look especially false all alone in a meadow. So that is a design issue that needs solving as well.
And it should be said that a realistic looking large fake tree is quite expensive. It requires a team of excellent craftsmen and women and sculptors.
I can understand how function needs to be accommodated in such a thing, but if the result looks like psychedelic sculpture than perhaps a different design ought to have been looked at.
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I'm not defending it. I was quite shocked when I saw it first appear in what was heavily publicised as a 'natural' habitat- I am really surprised the Authorities at the zoo accepted it in the design and didn't push for a better alternative- or that its still standing now.
