Male & Female Kudu and an Elephant Decoupage Ostrich Egg

Size:
Width: 6 inches
Length: 6 inches
Height: 9 inches

Hand Crafted in South Africa

This ostrich egg has been decorated with male, female kudu and an elephant. The back ground of the egg is a brown with gold flecks. This egg has been hand decorated using a decoupage method, first the egg is sanded so the natural dimples in the egg have been smoothed out, then the images are painstakingly glued to the egg, then the layers of lacquer are applied with the egg having to dry between each application of lacquer. To achieve the high gloss finish the eggs are lightly sanded between every few layers of lacquer. This egg has about 50 layers of lacquer.

Stand not included.

Kudu

Kudu have a narrow body with long legs, and their coats can range from brown/bluish-grey to reddish-brown. They possess between four to twelve vertical white stripes along their torso. The head tends to be darker in color than the rest of the body, and displays a small white chevron which runs between the eyes.
Male kudus tend to be much larger than females, and vocalize much more, using low grunts, clucks, humming, and gasping. The males also have large manes running along their throats, and large horns with two and a half twists, which, were they to be straightened, would reach a length of a little over three feet on average. However, the male horns do not begin to grow until the male is between the ages of six t twelve months, twisting once at around two years of age, and not reaching the full two and a half twist until they are six years old.
African Elephant/u>

The African elephant is the largest living land mammal. Of all its specialized features, the muscular trunk is perhaps the most extraordinary. It serves as a nose, hand, extra foot, signaling device and tool for gathering food, siphoning water, dusting, and digging. The tusks are another notable feature of both males and females. Elephants are right or left-tusked, using the favored tusk more often, thus shortening it from constant wear. Tusks differ in size, shape and angle and researchers can use them to identify individuals