Wednesday 15 August 2012

Beautiful Elephants.

The Melbourne Zoo is celebrating it's 150th anniversary, and one of the many events is the decoration of the baby elephants. Mali was born at the zoo and 50 fibre glass replicas have been made with various artists and groups commissioned to paint the baby elephants. There are 50 in all dotted about the city and environs.
http://www.zoo.org.au/mali/   see here for the city map of the Malis.
The artists painting the elephants have been sponsored by various companies and the works will all be auctioned in a month or so, hopefully the sponsoring groups will buy 'their' elephants. Here are just 2 of the baby elephants, one painted to show endangered Asian animals and the other completely covered in a glittering coat of mosaic tiles. Unfortunately I didn't take a note of the artists.

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