WHAT ARE THE PLANTS & ANIMALS?
The artists explored the diversity of Lethbridge symbolically, by painting an image that imagines the city as both a garden and zoological menagerie. A garden teeming with both indigenous flora & fauna, as well as introduced species. A vibrant and colourful mural populated by hybrid animals and plants. What are the plants and animals in the mural?
Panel 1
Animal 1:
Coyote body (native), brown trout head (introduced), deer hooves (native)
Plants:
Brown Eyed Susan (native)
3 Flowered Avens (native)
Panel 2
Animal 1:
Turkey Vulture (native)
Animal 2:
Cow head (introduced), pigeon body (introduced), cotton tail feet (native)
Plants:
Prickly pear cactus (native)
Grama grass (native)
Chokecherry (native)
Cultivated land
Panel 3
Animal 1:
Deer head (native), ring necked pheasant body (introduced), people feet
Animal 2:
Prairie hare head (native), suffolk sheep body (introduced), western Chorus Frog feet (native)
Plants:
Prickly pear cactus (native)
Prarie crocus (native)
Cultivated land
Panel 4
Animal 1:
Ground squirrel head (native), honey bee body (introduced), people arms
Animal 2:
Western painted turtle (native)
Plants:
Dandelion (introduced)
Brown Eyed Susan (native)
Cultivated land
Panel 5
Animals:
Dorset sheep head (introduced), ground squirrel body (native)
Plants:
Prickly pear cactus (native)
Grama grass (native)
Cultivated land