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I would shoot a poacher to protect an elephant. No doubt in my mind.
Elephants can play musical instruments and teach each other to do so. Some of the music is almost recognizable as such!
Very convincing vid though, apart from the sheer WTF of it. Hats off if it's a hoax.
it's pretty clear that Hong has been trained to paint a particular shape. That is still pretty impressive.
http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=69&osCsid=0aa25b949cc72ab8c3636f31bf854266
A neat trick, but please- these elephants wouldn't paint a thing if their trainers weren't right next to them telling them every stroke.
but yeah, until the elephant can paint anything new from sight without any direction other than "paint now!" then it's not really painting.
and until the elephant uses the painting to communicate an idea or a feeling, it's not art.
but it's a freakin elephant so it's still like wow, and more evidence that elephants are not the dumbest animals on the planet, even if they are just trained. I dunno. Maybe they like it. Maybe they sometimes think "that one sucked, i wanna do another one, better next time". Who knows.
An elephant trainer at a circus decided to teach his elephant to paint. After a while, he's taught it how to hold a paint brush. Later, he manages to teach the elephant how to dip the paint brush in the paint. Some time later still, he's managed to teach the elephant to stroke the brush against the canvas. Many years go by, and he teaches the elephant to paint better and better. Then one day, a reporter hears the story and comes to see the elephant paint. The elephant trainer says, "watch this"; he gets the reporter to sit on a stool and pose, and tells the elephant to paint a portrait of the reporter. The elephant paints deftly, with apparent confidence. After 20 minutes the reporter is excited to see the resulting portrait. The elephant trainer proudly turns the canvas around so the reporter can see it. It's just a mess of random colors. The reporter says "errr, it's crap". The elephant trainer is unperturbed. He beams with enthusiasm and pride "Maybe. But isn't it amazing - I've taught an elephant to paint!".
Source: http://ivan.truemesh.com/archives/000562.html
And I've always thought the reason for the increase of elephant madness, is because they are so intelligent.
And I don't know about anyone else, but that elephant can paint a better elephant than I can. I'm impressed, even if she is being shown what brush strokes to make.
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Why are elephants going crazy? Cause they're kept in zoos in -Alaska?!#$? I suspect they are brilliant animals, but it's a shame to measure their intelligence in terms of human intelligence. I say forget art, or forced training, - if left to their own devices, would they be interested in attempting to make images, once they are taught that it's possible? Doubt it.