Elephant hunting in the City

Melbourne Zoo is celebrating their 150th birthday this year and one of their focuses is protecting threatened species.  Mali is an Indonesian elephant that is the face of their threatened species programme and so they had 50 fibreglass replicas of Mali decorated by different artists and they are placed all over the city.  We tried to see how many we could find in an evening.  Here are some of the pictures.  Thanks go to our assistant models/photographers Claire and Craig.

This one was knitted into a jersey giving him a very lifelike look especially on his trunk and legs where the jersey wrinkled.

This one was commemorating Dame Edna's retirement

Mali painted this one herself.  The round blue mark on the trunk is the print of her trunk tip.