London has been hosting its fair share of animal sculptures in the past couple of years, and nearly thirty sculptures of chimpanze are located on the South Bank between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. Earlier this year, we had lions, and we had elephants before that. These chimp sculptures are brought to London by Chimps are Family. They, like the lions and elephants, have been designed by artists Gillie and Marc.
The aim of the sculptures is to raise awareness and help the chimps survive due to a changing environment. Each statue contains some important information about chimps as displayed in the different poses of the sculptures, which highlights how similar to humans they are.
The chimps are all in one location, and it does not take long to walk and see them all. However, one of the sculptures was missing, and I looked everywhere around where it was meant to be on the map and could not locate it. The sculptures will be in place until mid-October.
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