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- Scott_Bromley
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- video added March 28, 2008
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and the elephant can paint better than me...sad
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In an alternate universe, elephants watch in amazement as human zoo animals paint a self portrait....
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oh my god.
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- stephenthomson
- 1 year ago
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man you really can find viral's faster than me...
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- BenDorries
- 1 year ago
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Check out this link for more Elephant Art and info on how to buy it!
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- AndreaKnoll
- 1 year ago
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My God how we've underestimated the intelligence and understanding of all of our creatures. Amazing.
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Has the elephant been conditioned to recreate a certain pattern? Or is he knowingly painting his own self portrait? Either way it shows a great deal of intelligence. I want to hug him!
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- stephenthomson
- 1 year ago
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as an artist, i would love to think that elephants possess artistic autonomy. however, stephenthomson, unfortunately, i believe the former of your comment. i don't have much faith in humanity that i believe that they would encourage intelligent and artistic behavior without first searching for individual gain. --i'm sure that the elephant's guards/trainers are getting a lot of publicity b/c of this.
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according to the blurb on the youtube page, the tourism that this draws secures sanctuary for the animals. But i'm sure the keepers get something out of it too.
I think he knows what he's doing. It was said in my anthro class that humans are the only ones who understand 2-dimensional representation. but i dont think so.
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- stephenthomson
- 1 year ago
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No matter how it was accomplished...
It's an elephant painting an elephant holding a flower!
Life just can't be more cool than that.
Watch it all the way through to get to other vids on this gifted mammal. Too much fun. -
I also find it fascinating that he started with his nose. That's how I start my drawings of faces too!!
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- stephenthomson
- 1 year ago
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i knew elephants were intelligent, but this is amazing!
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- Sylvie1986
- 1 year ago
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Simply incredible. I loved elephants before seeing this and this just deepens my fascination of them.
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Looks like a Dali painting. That's amazing, though.
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Wow... simply wow. Elephants seem pretty capable at learning new skills. Check out this Current link and see clips to a documentary that Elephants were actually used as cameramen... camera animals?
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Amazing! Nature is full of surprises...
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I'm speechless
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umm that picture sucks ya'll! i mean seriously!! elephant art, like childrens art....sucks. needs to go back to elephant art school! maybe touch up on his skills. he is holding the brush to close to the paper....if he knew anything, he'd know that if he holds it further away, and more steady, it will come out looking nicer.
this elephant is definitely not a professional!
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- okinawanmajik
- 1 year ago
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This should be the animal of the year!
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okay, but let's see him do calculus. ;)
i do hope his training was cruelty free.
imabettie, maybe Dali was a fraud?? also ;)
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- chet_arthur
- 1 year ago
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chet_arthur, Some say he was. They say he wasn't a true surrealist because he thought out his paintings, rather than just painting them on the spot.
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That's awesome!
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- VoyagerFilms
- 1 year ago
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yeh there was a vc2 pod which had elephants painting in it some time ago..
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Please check this:
http://current.com/items/88882706_elephant_training_torture_in_thailand
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