Artist Ryo Shimura’s plastic endangered animals convey a quantified declination of animal numbers. Numerous small plastic white hippos scattered on the floor describe the exact numbers left remaining in the wild. His work brought under attention by the Eco & Art award 2011 forms an apt visualization of habitat loss and poaching. The figures of the hippo's cast in white appear desensitized and removed in their setting displaying confusion of their displacement from an ecological environment.