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- backin5minutes, on 07/04/2008, -5/+386This is the most amazing thing i've ever seen.
That elephant can almost draw an elephant better then me.
and it's an elephant. - Michiko280, on 07/04/2008, -9/+177THIS IS RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME!
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -3/+169Can we stop killing them now?
- retzed, on 07/05/2008, -0/+134An equally, if not more, impressive painting of an elephant by an elephant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk - untitlednet, on 07/05/2008, -0/+122whoa.. this elephant should set up a deviantART page!
- idc5, on 07/04/2008, -7/+128draws better than me..
- xirtap, on 07/04/2008, -3/+100Wow, that IS amazing. Not just what it paints, but the use of the colors.
- svensksvamp, on 07/05/2008, -1/+97yeah, cause elephants drawing in 3D is way to common.
- megadan76, on 07/04/2008, -1/+80Wow... what... where is the story surrounding this? I assume this elephant has been raised in human care by scientists and taught to paint... and isn't just, you know, some random jungle elephant Picasso.
- Lith25, on 07/04/2008, -17/+87Show me a video, until then I can't believe this.
- Cludgo, on 07/05/2008, -14/+83i for one welcome our new elephant over lords
- schweinehundXX, on 07/05/2008, -0/+57that is just the beginning. wait until he gets photoshop.
- zzz@tkz, on 07/05/2008, -14/+70I, for one, welcome our new elephant painting elephant overlords.
- bmson, on 07/04/2008, -9/+64I can't believe this is real :/
Elephant drawing a 2D image. - xParker, on 09/12/2008, -1/+50Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
- diadem2, on 07/05/2008, -4/+51I too would like to see further proof aside from the aforementioned image. I want to believe that this is real, but I must confess that past experience on the interweb has made me cynical and jaded.
- djturtlep, on 07/04/2008, -5/+48Thats amazing!
- Slade605, on 07/05/2008, -0/+43Now, I have heard everything.
- dondara, on 07/05/2008, -0/+43This isn't about you.
- RickyTheRiot, on 07/05/2008, -5/+47Technically it is done by an elephant, however the mahood is guiding it where to draw by tugging on it's trunk. There was a documentary on the subject in the UK about 6 months ago. While that programme covers some very interesting facts about how elephants see themselves and the world around them, don't get confused. This elephant is painting another one because a human is guiding it to do so, it's not doing it "free hand" (or should that be "free trunk").
This should be burried for being incorrect, but it's the telegraph's fault for the way they portray the story/pics. - rentmitchum, on 07/05/2008, -5/+42Elephants are one of the only other mammals that pass the mirror test (the one where you see if they recognize themself, therefore denoting intelligence, from our perspective anyway) other than all the great apes, magpies, dolphins and a few others I forget right now.
So yea, they're quite intelligent. (in our terms, intelligence from our perspective, as predominantly visual animals) - Malacandra95, on 07/05/2008, -0/+36He better not... or pretty soon large corporations will be outsourcing all their web development to elephants. Apparently they work for peanuts.
- wastelander, on 07/05/2008, -0/+34Apparently its real:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/elephantpaint ...
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinbu ...
"Elephant expert Dr Joyce Poole, who has studied the animals for 30 years, said she owned an elephant painting but had not come across animals painting their own images.
The Oslo-based scientist said: "I have seen elephants painting, but it was very free-flow.
it's certainly capable of drawing an elephant, and could be trained, but might not really understand what it was doing."
So the animal is reproducing an image it has been trained to copy and may not know what that image is supposed to represent.
Still an amazing demonstration of the animal's intelligence and dexterity. - AUniquePerson, on 07/05/2008, -2/+34From the Youtube comments: "Sorry people but this is fake.
The elephant has been trained to trace a picture and learn the pattern.
To the elephant the image has no meaning at all."
Darn! You ruined my enjoyment of believing that elephants were self-aware! - haydesigner, on 07/05/2008, -0/+29Did your pastor tell you to come on here and confess your sins?
- Detry, on 07/05/2008, -0/+27Elephants are actually pretty smart.
What is ***** up is the elephant painted another elephant with A ***** SADDLE.
Like it knows it is a slave. - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -5/+29Oh look, 1/6,050,000,000 of humanity trying to distinguish himself from the hive.
- dondara, on 07/05/2008, -3/+25Most humans had it coming
- darkane, on 07/05/2008, -1/+24@chrillen I think you just proved that this elephant is smarter than some people. Like yourself, for example.
- wastelander, on 07/05/2008, -0/+19All right, fine then.. I'll stop. You don't have to be rude about it.
- hamobu, on 07/05/2008, -2/+21I wonder if the elephant has been trained to paint another elephant, or if he is really expressing something that is on his mind.
- FMWatkins, on 07/05/2008, -0/+18Horton Draws A Horton.
- faraggi, on 07/05/2008, -0/+19@chrillen
man, you don´t get it do you? This animal is able to process a three dimensional object seen in the real world, and express it in a 2d form on a piece of paper. These kink of abstractions are the great steps we as humans needed to make to evolve from monkeys to what we are now.
Your brain processes signs, signs that mean something. This elephant associated a fellow elephant with a 2d drawing. I´m no expert, but I´m guessing this must be something like a first step in advanced communication. - t0x2c, on 07/05/2008, -0/+17His next drawing will be a boa constrictor eating an elephant.
- dher405, on 07/05/2008, -4/+20Lets not use the term "we" when you make that statement. You haven't killed one... I haven't killed one... I am pretty sure we don't support killing one.
- Gforce20, on 07/05/2008, -0/+13http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/elephantpaint ...
It's true. - moomeep, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1322min documentary, part of the "extraordinary animals" series by channel 5:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-941149771 ... - fas2, on 07/05/2008, -0/+14I still can't believe this :S It's too damn awesome.
- sonnybobiche, on 07/05/2008, -4/+17Actually, it's not quite as nice as you guys think it is: the elephant is following the directions of the trainer behind it. The trainer holds on to the trunk lightly and the elephant just responds to this movement. In effect, the trainer is making the painting. (He is mostly out of view of the camera and dumb tourists.)
The elephant is trained quite violently to respond in this way. It's not humane at all, but it sure gets the tourists to shell out the cash.
I am the last person you'll ever see to join PETA, but even I think this is wrong. - RickyTheRiot, on 07/05/2008, -3/+15While you are correct about the mahood controlling the elephant.
You are utterly incorrect about the training. The elephant IS NOT trained quite violently. - Ferre1, on 07/04/2008, -1/+13More video;
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/amazing-el ... - timusca, on 07/05/2008, -8/+20This really isn't ALL that amazing... animals, elephants especially, can be taught to paint one specific thing. Its not like you can drop a dog in front of him and the painting will be any different. This type of training DOES take a lot of intelligence, but its not exactly what everyone thinks it is.
- thesonofdarwin, on 07/05/2008, -0/+12Chrillen, thinking about the world only as it pertains to humans, one comment at a time.
It must be confining in that brain of yours. - slimZX, on 07/05/2008, -0/+11your tax dollars kill millions indirectly
- BowieX, on 07/05/2008, -0/+10You just had to didn't you.
tusk tusk tusk.... - beware001, on 07/05/2008, -2/+12oh wait you mean the elephants didnt take these pics either?? and the elephants didnt submit it to digg either? we know they didnt just find an elephant painting itself, and its still incredible.
- twishart, on 07/05/2008, -0/+10As long as he didn't put tears in the elephant's eyes....
- Stormwern, on 07/05/2008, -0/+10Near the end you can see his head while he's painting, if it's fake they have one hell of a special effects budget.
- blackjack75, on 07/05/2008, -1/+11And now you have to chose between what's more likely and what would be cool.
- Misogyny, on 07/05/2008, -0/+9It's unfortunate that you're getting buried. That's actually quite poetic in a Jack Kerouac sort of way.
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