Melody wrote:
Ha. Yes. My excuse: This was the first griffin I had sculpted. The original was pretty lopsided, I started to fix her for the final casting, but she looked so cute this way, I left some of the goofy-ness. The ears are floppy looking.
I love the way eagles can be doing something totally silly while looking fierce at the same time.
I remember a film I once saw about a tame golden eagle that had raised some baby geese, as if they were eaglets. She had a similar complex expression when her children insisted on jumping into a pond and swimming.
AAHH! ^_^ That’s ADROABLE. Well, now her quirks are totally endearing. XD
I read about that eagle…mama eagle would swoop down to be with her babies, and the geese would instinctively panic and run away from the predator, but then run back to mama eagle, honking “momma, momma, help! There was a monster after me!” ^_^ She actually raised those geese to adult hood (thankfully the human keepers fed them the veggies/grains they needed!!)
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkien