50 painted Mali elephants on display in city as part of Melbourne Zoo birthday celebrations

A HERD of spectacular elephants descended on city streets yesterday as part of Melbourne Zoo's 150th anniversary celebrations.

A HERD of spectacular elephants descended on Melbourne's city streets yesterday.

They are colourful glass-fibre brothers to Melbourne Zoo's world-famous elephant calf Mali - and will be on display for the next six weeks.

They include the Mali with bling at Melbourne Town Hall, and Rusty Mali in Chinatown, who looks like he stepped off the set of Mad Max 4.

VOTE which is your favourite Mali elephant on display here

After the exhibition ends, the Mali crew return to the zoo to be auctioned.

See the trail map of where all the elephants are hiding at zoo.org.au/mali

Vote for your favourite of the 50 Mali sculptures to go into the draw to win a trip for two to Thailand.

And 100 runners-up will each win a family pass to Melbourne Zoo's 150th Birthday Party on October 13.

Go to heraldsun.com.au/mali to vote which is your favourite.