True, they look more like lionesses. I stumbled on this in Green-Wood recently. It’s on the backside of the tombstone for Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, twentieth century artists. I just happened to be passing.
Green-Wood has more real animals than artistic representations of them. This is one of the most notable:
This bear marks the gravesite of William H. Beard, a 19th century artist famed for, well, his dancing bears and the “bull and bears” for the sharks of Wall Street. This metal beast was a tribute by Dan Ostermiller and dates to 2002. Can’t say I like it.
Meanwhile, in the shadows and rather less bear-bastic:
By a strange coincidence, the ground in front of these twins was littered with white feathers. 
Somebody had been feasting on a “white dove,” actually a homing pigeon, a domesticated form of the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia). Captive bred for such horror shows as weddings, these birds are sitting ducks for raptors.
Backyard and Beyond 
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