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Quagga Sculptures at Chleby, 26/08/12

Part of an extensive extinct animals series. One is actually in the cheetah paddock.

Quagga Sculptures at Chleby, 26/08/12
Maguari, 10 Oct 2012
    • Maguari
      Part of an extensive extinct animals series.

      One is actually in the cheetah paddock.
    • Brum
      Not amazingly realistic, this zoo definitely fails on a couple of levels in my opinion from the comfort of the UK.
      Jungle temple/gibbon house? Fail!
      Quagga? Fail!
      Livingstone in with cheetah? Fail!
      Porcupine enclosure that looks like a patio and pond? Fail!

      Please tell me I'm wrong and it's a good zoo overall?
    • Maguari
      I don't know about it being a spectaculaly good zoo, but it's flippin' hilarious! :D

      I think it's important to distinguish between weird and bad - the cheetah and gibbon enclosures are very weird but I'm not sure they're really bad - they're basically two rather average exhibits with weird ol' aesthetics.

      The porky, coypu and lemur enclosures are where the problems lie - otherwise there's not too much wrong - just a little local zoo with a few bizarre designs.

      I quite like the sculptures (scary lady excepted) - they're stylised, yes, but nothing wrong with that (and they liven up an otherwise rather slight zoo). There's quite a consistent 'house style' across the whole set.
    • Brum
      It does look quite unusual, to say the least! :rolleyes:

      The gibbon enclosure and house looks really weird to my eyes... The other 3 "bad" enclosures do look pretty bad, the porcupine and coypu do really appear to be living feral in a very middle class garden! ;)

      I think that the sculptures are plain odd, scary lady included. I did like the one of the Sardinian pika though, how many average visitors are even aware of extant pika species? :D
    • Maguari
      That's partly what I liked - for every Quagga, Dodo or Thylacine there was a Sardinian Pika, Mascarene Parrot or Toolache Wallaby. Fun stuff.
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