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- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -16/+365HOLY F*CKING *****!!!
- BESTenemy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+236Maybe the cave drawings of prehistoric men hunting elephants were done by the elephants.
- legalizeitmon, on 03/28/2008, -2/+236That elephant can paint better than I can
- FrequentFlyer29, on 03/28/2008, -8/+155The presence of elephants in the wild has often been discovered by doodles and drawings done with sticks, so you don't have to worry that they were forced to learn this.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -6/+140I am having a hard time believing an elephant would paint him/herself holding a flower...
- sockpuppets, on 03/28/2008, -5/+129Little known fact: xkcd is done by an elephant.
The more you know! - ahoyhoy, on 03/28/2008, -1/+76It's really quite pedestrian and pedantic, don't you agree Opera Singing Tiger?
- yoshitomi, on 03/28/2008, -3/+70for me, seeing animals paint is nothing new; my ex-girlfriend used to paint a lot
- freakydingo, on 03/28/2008, -2/+66He was probably taught how. I actually thought the video was fake because of how zoomed in the camera was in the beginning, but then it pans out and you can that it IS the elephant holding the paintbrush. A little crazy.
- pantsydecision, on 03/28/2008, -6/+66this is better than 97% of modern art
- Orsenfelt, on 03/28/2008, -10/+69I for one welcome our new elephant overlords.
- hauntedchippy, on 03/28/2008, -25/+74Amazing.
And to think the arrogance of mankind, to think that only he is capable of intelligence, that only he has a mysterious thing called a soul to try to elevate him above animals. - zephc, on 03/28/2008, -2/+51If he starts using photoshop, THEN I'll be impressed.
- Kautylia, on 03/28/2008, -0/+47Footage is from the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. They have a show that celebrates the elephants they work to preserve, and one of the acts is where each elephant paints a different picture. I have seen it with my own eyes and it is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
- Bogus283, on 03/29/2008, -0/+46Won't happen. Elephants are afraid of mice.
- andersonwill, on 03/28/2008, -0/+37You cant really compare our nose's with an elephants....
- AlteredEG0, on 03/28/2008, -16/+51Really quite amazing, I would never have guessed elephants (or any animal in general) were this perceptive of the world around them. I wonder what this elephant's other works look like. How would she depict us? Remarkable.
- mystafreaze, on 03/28/2008, -2/+37painting for peanuts?
- hauntedchippy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+32Theres a potential joke here involving the republican logo.
- dollar0dot02, on 03/28/2008, -0/+31No, they were not. They were painted by wooly mammoths.
- bannus, on 03/28/2008, -16/+47I'm as impressed with its motor skills with its trunk as its self-awareness. Imagine trying to paint something with your nose...
- geneticlone, on 03/28/2008, -1/+31I think the elephant was sending us a sign, the flower stands for its need for freedom from the scary looking dude holding the paint bucket.
- IncogMosqui, on 03/28/2008, -0/+26Actually, Elephants are one of the few animals that have passed the self-awareness test.
Just sayin'. - sappro, on 03/28/2008, -0/+26http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy9kKxJJpug
Related video about the same elephant (apparently) - RetroEvolute, on 03/28/2008, -2/+26Wow. That's incredible. That's all I can say...
- nallelcm, on 03/28/2008, -3/+25and the world was made in 7 days
- isny, on 03/28/2008, -0/+22It's grrrreat!
- IncogMosqui, on 03/28/2008, -0/+21The way the elephant traces back over the lines so perfectly is what leads me to believe that this is (at least) partly the elephant's creation. If the action were coerced, or from a learned set of commands, the elephant wouldn't a) touch up the lines that aren't dark enough and b) the precision of the line-drawing probably wouldn't be as good the second time around
- jackyyll, on 03/28/2008, -1/+20So what you're saying is the paint brush was really small compared to an elephant? Thanks.
- Billistic, on 03/28/2008, -0/+18Actually I was thinking a guy put on a sleeve that looks like an elephant trunk.
That seems like less trouble. - cugar, on 03/28/2008, -1/+19my mind was just blown
- dualboy24, on 03/28/2008, -1/+19Best comment so far... too bad it's kind of low on the list.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -0/+17*****!!!
- Tayls, on 03/29/2008, -0/+17You just blew my ***** mind.
- jackyyll, on 03/28/2008, -1/+17Well, when was the last time you saw an elephant holding a 10 foot long flower in it's trunk?
- aelias, on 03/28/2008, -2/+18When I went to art school we called it "drawing the ground". WTF kind of pretentious ***** is 'activating the page'?
- moofer, on 03/28/2008, -0/+15There was an elephant at the Phoenix Zoo that painted - it died a few years ago. It didn't paint any recognizable objects though. It did pick its own colors, brushes, patterns, etc. It loved to do it, and would get very depressed when it couldn't. I thought that was amazing. Now I'm just a tad creeped out and blown away.
- Kautylia, on 03/28/2008, -0/+14The place is the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I've been there before and they have all the elephants paint a different picture during the show they have. It's pretty amazing.
- MasterGrief, on 03/28/2008, -1/+15Gotta nuke somethin
- qwertyuio, on 03/28/2008, -2/+15wtf...
- robotto, on 03/28/2008, -0/+13Elephants are known for their memory capacity. When taught properly, they can paint. There are youtube videos of this. Nevertheless still amazing though at first.
- Dokument, on 03/28/2008, -0/+12Seriously. wow.
- MasterGrief, on 03/28/2008, -0/+12This is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen.
- CrazyDave303, on 03/28/2008, -1/+13I understand elephants are self-aware, I wonder how much of this drawing is recital or is it self Imaginative?
- bitcloud, on 03/29/2008, -0/+12So why do the other elephants all paint squiggles?
http://www.elephantartgallery.com/paintings/index. ... - Spottswood, on 03/28/2008, -4/+16hmmm.... lol
"have you ever seen a man eat his own head?"
"no"
"well then you havent seen everything!" - moofer, on 03/28/2008, -0/+11let us not forget the bulldog on a skateboard.
- hauntedchippy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+11Well yeah, but a more fundamental issue is the supposed barrier that separates man and beast. And today that barrier got smaller, if it even exists.
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