Most beautiful sculptures at zoos ?

To celebrate Melbourne Zoo's 150th Anniversary in 2012, they got Mali (their two year old Asian Elephant calf, and the very first elephant to be born at the zoo), to paint a sculpture of herself. The finishing product was displayed around the city of Melbourne that year, and now remains (I believe), in a city park.

 

Thank you for sharing this !

This is brilliant, I really like when zoos do this kind of thing.

 

Your welcome.

It's really cool and its nice to still see it around in the city!

 

Tree of Life Garden at Disney's Animal Kingdom:



























All photos taken by geomorph.

 

Thanks for sharing !

These are really interesting and unusual sculptures.

Sort of remind me a bit of the set design of "Pan's Labyrinth" for some reason.

 

Not really a zoo though apparently has numerous live animals, there looks to be some excellent bronze sculptures at the high desert museum in the USA:

Family of beavers sculptures:

Mule deer buck:

Mule deer mother and fawn:

Pair of raven "hecklers":

Clashing elk sculpture:

Leaping salmon sculpture:

Pronghorn herd wall sculpture:


Photo credits to @Ituri.

 

Some sculptures at the Philadelphia zoo, USA (photos taken by @TinoPup) :

Spider monkey:

Polar bear:

Hippo sculpture on signage:

Armadillo:

Fossa sculptures on signage:

Raven:

Giant otter sculptures on signage:

Turtle:

Giant otter sculpture on signage:

Serval :

Elephants (with masks):

Giant otter sculpture on signage:

Wolves:

Warthog:

Gorilla:

Snake:

Vulture:

Guineafowl:

Big cat:

 

I know it's an old thread but I'm honestly surprised nobody mentioned the Mammoths that used to be on the entrances to the pachyderm building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.