Most beautiful sculptures at zoos ?

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

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Nile monitor lizard sculpture at Denver zoo, USA:


Photo credit to @snowleopard.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Bull frog sculpture at the Oakland zoo, USA:



Photo credits to @geomorph.

 

Detroit Zoo:



Photo taken by geomorph.

 

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.

 

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



Photo credits to @Ned.

 

Polar bear sculptures at Cleveland Metroparks zoo, USA:



Photo credits to @jusko88.

 

Koala sculptures at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo , USA:



Photo credit to @snowleopard.

 

Overview of panda enclosure by Ned posted 23 Feb 2020 at 12:35 PM

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 !

 

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



Photo taken by geomorph.