Best murals / mosaics at zoos

Thanks for sharing @GiratinaIsGod ! Much appreciated !

These are great looking, but what is the reptile in the third picture ? is it a tegu or a caiman ?

 

definitely a caiman, you can see the Osteoderm armor on the back

 

Here's a website I found of a mural artist who did a bunch of murals at major American collections.
Zoos | Googleplex Murals

 

Thanks for sharing @MonkeyBat ! I'll check this out as looks interesting.

Much appreciated !

 

I can't believe how many of those I've seen! The Australia House at Milwaukee is now gone, and this website is probably the only place you can see it.

 

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Yes, in 1954, the walls of the West Tunnel at London Zoo were decorated with reproductions of some of the famous prehistoric cave paintings from Lascaux and Altamira. The pictures were painted by students from the Royal Academy of Arts School.

The walls of the tunnel were repainted some years ago but I think the "original" artwork from 1954 was better.

 

Its a bit of a shame really that they repainted it IMO.

I'll check out if there are any pictures of what it once looked like, I bet it was quite impressive.

 

An attractive piece of artwork on the boarded-up window of what was Paignton's gentle lemur house. I later watched the artist painting a larger version on a wall in the zoo restaurant

 

Here's another artistic entrance gate - Dudley. Shame the background is a bit fussy.

 

Some of the murals / painted backgrounds by the artist Paul Barker at the Brookfield zoo (Thanks to @MonkeyBat for the idea) :













Photo credits to @pachyderm pro , @Moebelle and @Sheather.

 

Love the kingfisher artwork looks like it could almost be hung on a wall as an art piece doesn't it ?

 

Informative mural wall showing Central African rainforest scene at Columbus zoo:


Photo credits to @blospz.

 

Tokyo Sea Life Park has a nice, minimalist mural near their seabird cave exhibit

 

Pleas tell me the Anteater and Tapir have access to more space than that

 

In the summer they do, but outside of that no, they do not.

 

I have absolutely no idea as have never visited that zoo but I would imagine that they do.

 

Thanks for sharing @DaLilFishie ! Much appreciated !

 

Where in the zoo are they because when I visited 8 years ago I thought they were in TropicWorld?

 

By far the most accomplished muralist in the American zoo/aquarium community:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dave+rock+muralist&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari

 

Thanks for sharing @reduakari , will check it out !