Two dogs and one bear so far. Anymore? Also is this in excess of the statues of women?
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Statues of animals in edinburgh
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There are some horses round about - they tend to have humans on top though
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Are there not two versions of the same bear?
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The pigeons.
There was a mouse on the big trumpet in Loanhead but it kept getting nicked.
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@neddie I suppose men are humans
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Suppose it depends how you define statue -
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Bronze swans at Edinburgh Quay.
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There used to be that extra swan in the WoL by St Bernard's Well.
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The giraffes at the Omni.
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Is there still the rhino half way up the wall of Informatics?
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Similarly there was half a cow (can't remember which half) on a wall in the Cowgate
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Greyfriars Bobby of course. And the eagles at the steps of Dynamic Earth.
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A weird statue called Horse Man Eagle in the development at Silvermills that I used to inhabit in younger days. It features a horse, a man and an eagle, but it's not your usual man on a horse...
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@Greenroofer
That link leads to a photo credited to 'Sly Swiggs' who I am lucky enough to kind of know in real life and about whom I have many amusing stories one of which involves a bicycle. I suspect that I may well be the only person who ever knows both of you.
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Cow on the corner of Shandwick Place, outside that pub.
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Plenty of lions and unicorns.
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@Snowy: The half cow is still on Cowgate - I spotted it from a bus going over South Bridge yesterday. It's the north end of a southbound cow.
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Gembo: Also is this in excess of the statues of women?
If both versions of Arthur's Chair are still there then together with the Greek stool on top of the Burns Monument there's more statues of furniture in Edinburgh than of women.
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OSM might help with this too:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BLA(Click the 'run' button to run the query)
(You can see a list of the artworks if you click the data tab at the top right).
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Can anyone spot what's wrong with the picture the EEN are using for the Wojtek story?
(I know that @dougal does, being a boardgamer) ;-)
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Not exactly statues but wooden otters, a dog and a frog along the towpath in Wester Hailes.
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They are making a film about Wojtek the beer drinking, fag smoking, munition shell carrying Polish Army Bear
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@threefromleith, those Star Wars like walkers in the background look decidedly non WWII.
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@threefromleith have you played that board game? Any good?
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I was confused when I first heard of this army bear thing when they installed the statue as in 2007 I'd seen a Korean adaptation of a German play which I thought was about the same thing, albeit rendered near-incomprehensible by being highly interpretively-dancey and mostly shouted in Korean with only four or five section-heading supertitles in English throughout the whole show. The Fringe show was in fact about Woyzeck, not Wojtek, but it was not at all obvious that the title character in the fringe show wasn't pretending to be a bear.
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