4 Responses to “Elephant Paints Self Portrait”

1. greg Posted: Apr 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 am

   1 A friend of mine worked as a vet tech at a zoo in New York one summer and returned home with an elephant painting. I forget whether it was a portrait or a self-portrait or just random paint, though.

2. Jami Posted: Apr 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 am

   2 Author Comment I hope the proceeds from their painting sales go directly to them somehow. Like better living conditions or food or something.

3. VonKraut Posted: Apr 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm

   3 Ya I heard they sell the painting and it goes either towards their care of towards saving their environment. Its really cool to see such a huge, majestical creature do something so delicate. Its also really interesting to see a creatures artistic impression of itself. Truely amazing video!

4. Taellosse Posted: Apr 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm

   4 I read somewhere else that the elephant is trained to paint that particular picture–they aren’t making self-portraits on their own. Which would be super-cool if they were. But I guess this is just a demonstration of technical skill, rather than representative of abstract thinking.