The worlds only stuffed Gryffon

Here's a pic I found at: www.mythicalrealm.com...

It says that it was shot down over Copenhagen by the Belgian Huntress Nadine Legrande and is now in a Danish museum.
I think that it's a fake but pretty cool none the less. So, what do you guys think?

[edit on 6/15/04 by NotTooHappy]

It does look fake.
The wings start at the neck instead of the sholders or body.
They didn't even work that hard on it.
Looks like they just gutted a bird at put it over the head of a lion.

[edit on 16-6-2004 by AceOfBase]

At first it kinda looked like a lion was eating a bird... they could have at least tried a little harder.

Real or not it sure does look great.

Originally posted by AceOfBase

Looks like they just gutted a bird at put it over the head of a lion.

If that was the case, then obviously the wings would start at the proper place.

Originally posted by Who Dares Wins
Real or not it sure does look great.

You have a point
I would love to have it over my fireplace, i could tell the women that i shot when i went back thru time or some bs..........lol
i went to far

Thats so fake. i think my baby si. has one of thos. Besides if it is err was real, where are the other ones? Where did it come from?

that looks pretty rad, and fake

Originally posted by NightGloom
At first it kinda looked like a lion was eating a bird...

Or a lion trying to impregnant one...

If we can find out which museum it is located in, I can go check it out, since I live in Denmark..

But hey, fake! But then I can take some good pictures of it for you guys..

OMG! That thing looks so cool. Fake though....

did u notice the bird has ears..

I think it's just a feather that looks like an ear because of the lighting.

Its looks fake to me. I went to a gas station in oregon once and they had a stuffed mermaid. That was fake looking, too.

That's the crappest thing i've ever seen. Fake is too kind a word.

hmmm...cool but fake

i agree...the wings start at wrong place and the beak and claws are too yellow looking.

could just be the vanish they preserve it with but it dont look right!

I'm going with "fake" for a couple of reasons:

#1: That's not a museum display.

#2: the feathers are real; the beak is plastic (the ceres (waxy place around the nostrils) are the same plastic as the beak.)

#3 wings aren't NEAR big enough to loft that body. Particularly with those skimpy, ratty feathers.

#4... those legs (as everyone says) are the wrong color.

#5 The front left leg bends wrong

IF that's a lion's hindquarters behind it (might be), a male African lion's is about the same size as a deer's. That would mean it's a chimera (a thing made up of two stuffed animals.)

Interesting curiosity, but a fake.

it looks likea raptor (hawk) and my old lion doll.

how would that thing ever get off the ground? seems to me the wings would need to be alot bigger to lift that lion body.

This must be the jack-a-lope of Denmark.