For this assignment I decided to attend the Museum of National History where I looked at different exhibits throughout the museum. This specific piece of artwork is located in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals. This artwork had a lot of other mammals in its surrounding which were very interesting as well. I came across this specific artwork and decided to take a picture of this because it looks so realistic. As I stared at these animals they looked so real and beautiful. It was exactly what I was expecting for these lions to look like. This artwork reminds me of myself in some way because they look very powerful and mean but at the same time very calm and sweet. I really liked this because it looks awesome catching the viewers attention. Since it looks so realistic it is as though you are face to face to these wild animals. The cats actually lived across the United States until European settlers encroached. By the early 1900s, almost all cougars had been exterminated. These cats are solitary, and males and females only travel together a few days out the year when they are mating. This mostly means that these two cats were traveling together because they were mating.
