Elephant painting!!

[Dominique Grenier]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE

Have you guys seen this? Wow, I mean, I'm not even sure I can do it...

 

[Greg M]

fake.

 

[David Mutchler]

Not Fake!

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'm skeptical. Lots of aspects of that video scream "fake". Although, I can believe that they taught the elephant to paint a specific picture, I suppose it could happen, lots of repetitive training to get him to consistently produce that image.

Here at the Denver Zoo, there's Mshindi the Rhino that paints. The zoo has auctioned / sold some of Mshindi's works. He paints with a brush, but the artwork itself is well, how should I put it... quite abstract.

 

[Erik Bien]

Well, there is indeed a preserve near Chiang Mai, Thailand where elephants paint, and the work is sold to help support them. But their paintings look nothing like this, so I say it's fake.

http://www.elephantartgallery.com/paintings/

 

[Dominique Grenier]

I am skeptical also, but one of my co-worker says his parents went to this exact place and saw it with their own eyes and even purchased a painting..

I don't know, if they can teach an elephant to walk on a ballon, maybe they can do this...