What) Conny is a life-sized replica of a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) that has sat outside the Children's Museum for over 30 years. Conny is a male. Male sperm whales are bigger than females and, at 60 feet long, Conny could only be a guy. Just like a real sperm whale, Conny only has teeth in his lower jaw. Also like his real world cousins, his blowhole is a little bit to the left on the top of his head. Unlike Conny, real whales don’t squirt water out of their blowholes. Conny was built in 1976 by volunteers from The Cetacean Society. (1)

    Where) 950 Trout Brook Drive at the Children's Museum

    Why) Other than the obvious, let's say I did it as a negotiation tactic.  You see, I have been looking forward to one of the Hartford Buckys for five years and I thought that if necessary I could be "talked" out of seeing the whale just so that I could go to the other one.  Thankfully, I didn't have to do any of that.


























Here is Conny from the front.







And from the side.  From this angle he looks very similar to this picture of ...







... a real live sperm whale. (2)







Even I don't think that any sculpture could capture the essence of this picture. (3)