An Elephant Paints His Own Self-Portrait

Posted by Damozel | This is an astonishing---and moving---thing to witness.  Watch it till the end:  you'll see him carefully and delicately use his trunk to paint an absolutely recognizable picture of an elephant holding a red flower in his trunk. 

I've posted more footage of elephants painting  (and some background about the painting 'Starving Elephant Artisans' ) here.

Comments

[Charles]

Awesome!

[Dudan]

I can do that.

[Erika Von Zoog]

This changes everything I assumed about the animal planet. After years of figure drawing, I realize how radically difficult it is to create such confident, descriptive lines in ink. I think it is utterly necessary to get this video out to the world citizenry asap.

[Nina]

Not that difficult if you've been trained over and over and over to paint the same thing, in a particular order so it seems like there is 'artistic' thought involved. I also question what measures have been used to train this elephant.