Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is an artwork by Chinese contemporary artist and political commentator, Ai Weiwei. The work comes in a small (gold) and large (bronze) version. Created in 2010, the zodiac heads (a Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig) are inspired by those which once comprised a water clock-fountain at the Old Summer Palace, which is a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing that were constructed by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. The Old Summer Palace was eventually destroyed by French and British troops in
Letter-winged kite under its current binomial name "Elanus scriptus". The specific epithet is from the Latin word "scriptum" meaning "written" or "marked". Charles Sturt wrote of seeing them on his travels in his 1849 book "Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia". The letter-winged kite is monotypic; no subspecies are recognized, nor is there any recorded geographic variation. "Letter-winged kite" has been designated the official name by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC). In Central Australia, southwest of Alice Springs, the Pitjantjatjara term for the letter-winged kite is "nyanyitjira". It has been incorrectly called white-breasted sparrowhawk. Molecular evidence shows that the letter-winged kite