I love how some people here are trying to prove this is fake. Probably Christians. They just can't accept the fact that animals can be highly intelligent as well.
@9ssgoku Religion has nothing to do with this subject. "Probably Christians. They just can't accept the fact that animals can be highly intelligent as well. " not true...
-I'm a Christian, and i do believe that this is true :)
@9ssgoku it isn't "fake." the elephant is painting, but it is not really in control. its keeper has devised and trained the elephant to follow physical commands to paint.
this is fake trust me. i just read an article on it. the elephant handler tugs at the elephants ears to make horizontal and vertical lines and dots. but this doesnt mean that elephants are not extremely intelligent. dailymail.co. uk/sciencetech/article-1151283/Can-jumbo-elephants-really-paint--Intrigued-stories-naturalist-Desmond-Morris-set-truth.html
It's been exposed as a hoax. What one sees is a distance shot of an elephant with a paint brush making marks on paper. All of the close-ups of a trunk actually drawing an elephant show a trunk, no elephant behind it.
@NotSoOldHippy Dude shut up. Did you even watch the damn video? Not a single sentence you said is even true. What do you think they do during the live shows? Use a robot elephant?
@insanewarlock666 I really don't think that they are that smart to imitate what they see cause that would mean they are almost as intelligent as human..
@Poprostujaola It's kinda dumb to think an animal can't be as intelligent as human. As a matter of fact, dolphins, pigs and elephants, among others, are known to be more intelligent than humans.
If an Elephant can draw other Elephants, then a Mammoth might be able to draw other mammoths. Which means the mammoth drawings in caves might not be by cavemen. Could it be that we've been fooled all this time?? Thumbs up if this makes sense.
I have a painting of a tree made by an elephant in Malaysia...i witnessed the painting and even have a video of it. It's nothing too magical...i think most elephants with the right training can do it. And from my S.E.Asian experience, most elephants are trained to do a lot of stuff...not just painting...anyone want to buy the painting from me? :P
@MrBfurr I think I saw a Discovery special where an elephent painted shapes it recognised, like a police car. It made a vague car shape with one color and made the siren with red and blue.
It's becoming more obvious to me that the trainers (always right beside the elephants with one of their arms up!) are the ones controlling the painting. It's like facilitated communication for autistic children, which is a complete hoax. Now, see the difference between elephants painting with trainers, and those without:
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I don't doubt an elephant's intelligence. However, I don't think elephants understand how to draw a contour line. =/
This does not separate them from us in god's eyes. To god they are just beasts in which he allows us to enslave or butcher for meat. Elephants are not even mentioned in the bible. I think they are not self conscious bescause if they are they are going to hell to burn flames FOREVER because I can't imagine elephants accepting Christ as their personal savior. They are just Meat and bones.
@dr4mus Really? Like, really really? You're using the bible as a basis for sentience? Okay, then. "And you may not eat the pig. It has split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is ceremonially unclean for you" - Deuteronomy 14:8 Ever had bacon? Then you're ceremonially unclean, and going to hell. "You must set aside for the Lord your God all the firstborn males from your flocks and herds" Deuteronomy 15:19 Guess all those farmers that forgot to sacrifice are going to hell
@dr4mus ...you are a very sad lonely freek...i have just looked on the 3 videos you have put up of yourself ...you cannot even say anything on them appart from just looking a compleat Twat....
@dr4mus Apparently you're just meat and bones. The bible was written by men. Proof: dinosaur bones, natural disasters, holocaust, infinity of planets, no way of survival for 1 man and woman, talking pets? Ship built by 1 man that fit hundreds of tonnes of animals? wandering desert with no water? pedophilia? STDs? Threat of burning in flames?..Fuck you Christ
I don't know if these elephants were forced to this or not, but either way I think its incredible they have ability to do this, if its real
no se como pueden utilizar a los animales como entreteniemiento, es repugnante que la gente sea tan ciega y crea que es bonito ver a un elefante pintandoooooooooo, que devastadoras imgenes...!!!
Stop fucking abusing animals, you fucking bigots! I wish these terrible people would fucking die of aids, the living piles of shit! Imagine how many times that elephant has been beaten to a pulp to train the poor to make that one painting.
Don't be fooled people, this is just circus trickery, and it's animal abuse - one of the worst kinds of animal abuse!
@PesteleCelViteaz YOU are whats wrong with the world. Hate-filled angry, venomous rage spewed upon those with whom you disagree. Whatever philosophy you hold about animal torture is made irrelevant by your irrational insulting fume. Who would take your "alleged" love for animals seriously? Based on your raging rant, one would assume you yank the wings off of butterflies.
@ionamic I was just appalled at how misleading this elephant gag is. Please don't asume you know me. The problem is people harming animals and thus training them to paint 10 lines and then make money off of this.
fyi elephants don't paint this way of their own volition, they have been trained to duplicate images for sale to tourists. inquiring minds can find TRUE creations from elephant artists. see elephant art gallery spotting a fake
Please see YouTube video ' Torture In Thailand ' to see why these animals are so complient to humen wishes.Basically, what you are seeing are highly damged elephants that have been forcably removed from mother at 3yrs of age and put thru a process called 'Breaking The Spirit'. During which they literally have 'the shit beaten out of them' as they frequently defacat in terror during this week[s] long process. Please don't buy these; 'Art-Works-Of-Shame'
Have any actual proof? I do not see how an elephant can die during training to paint a picture. That's like saying all service dogs are abused. They're taught with positive reinforcement.
Finally, to anyone who has seen the elephant painting videos, these are a the result of very cruel and consistent punishment at the end of barbed metal hooks and it is imperative that we stop purchasing them or supporting these organizations. What you don't see on those YouTube videos is the elephant urinating in fear as it is handed the paint brush.
It is so obvious that the elephants have been trained to do this like everything else they have been trained to do. It is evil and stops them from living their natural life. The earth is over-run with humans, and yet we feel it necessary to slay the few elephants left there are just to make more space for us. Look more closely and you will see that the elephant is controlled by the person on the left and that they are just afraid that they will be punished if they do not do what the person wants
The Earth isn't "over-run" with humans. And if its such a big deal to you, just kill yourself instead of contributing to the "problem." And while you whine over elephants being removed to make human homes, I bet you have no problem wtih all the insects, rodents, bunnies, and large predators killed to make room for YOU. Stop being selfish and let other humans make room for themselves on this Earth like you have.
when you think about it its only like cave drawings of past apes that evolved into humans, Watch Out Elephants will take over the world, till they have to get a plane your 'trunk' can only weigh 20kg! hahahaha
If that elephant is smart enough to know how to do that, that is impressive. Even if it is just a trick and they trained him to do that it is still very impressive.
animal r great...i luv them...they r smart good friends, i´m sure i would give my life for my dog if ii have to...more than twice i almost go to jail protecting them & i´m proud of it
i dont get how an elephant can paint like that in the beginning!! all ive seen them paint was lines that overlap each other and turn out reallly sloppy.
Elephants that 'paint' or 'play music' have all been trained in this fashion, in fact every single elephant you ride in Thailand has been treated in this way, and it's horrible. By supporting those tourist attractions, you are supporting the tortue of these amazing creatures.
Elephants can't paint, just like homo sapiens can't paint. Oh, and moneys can't speak sign language, dogs can't communicate, animals can't memorize anything or have any creative ability. Animals, especially humans who think this video is "fake", are stupid.
Don't be so pompous, Pinocchio. Give Dumbo some credit.
painting is a trick just like standing on hind legs is a trick. but i understand what u mean, i thinking watching them do THIS trick is more interesting.
But how can anyone treat these wonderful animals like that? They`re not toys. They are ver intelligent, they feel pain, they have a soul. In an ideal world, the people who abused them would be imprisoned.
Speaking as an artist - it is impossible to "beat" any creature into having that kind of coordination - the elephant has to be capable of, at the very least, holding an image in her mind of what she wants to accomplish, and to know when she's reached her goal, regardless of whether she understands what it might mean to "paint a picture."
They're still being beat to perform. Sure they have natural talent, but have no say as to when they want to use it, they're forced into using it by whatever means will get the job done.
You're speaking as an artist - what do you know about elephants exactly?
Does a parrot look at mini bicycle in a circus and pictures in it's mind where it wants to go on the bike, does it picture its final destination and the wind ruffling the feathers on it head? Of course not. The elephant is very carefully guided by the man standing next to it, one hand under the trunk, the other against the side of it head, with or without a sharp nail to remind the elephant to behave. Been there, seen it.
What do I know about elephants? Apparently, just a touch more than you - whatever you choose to call yourself. I can see very clearly in the video where the trainer's hands are - close to the elephant's mouth. Whether or not he is causing the elephant pain, which he very well may be, is a matter for you to decide, along with others who have "been there." But as a professional illustrator, I've been poked with a sharp stick to make me paint too. It doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing.
It would be impossible to hold the elephant's trunk and "guide" it to reproduce the results seen here without the beast itself having some level of participation. The dexterity and fine motor skills required exist in the connection between the mind and the muscles at the tip of the trunk, the ones directly holding the brush. I get that you want to see these animals released into the wild and left unmolested. I agree.
Well as a post-graduate vet student who has also studied cognitive evolution and animal behaviour I have the credentials. Given that all living things are a product of evolution and therefore the environmental niche they live in - what is the evolutionary advantage does the 'ability to paint' confer? Nothing. You're totally anthopomorphising elephants to fit what you would love to consider intelligence and creativity. Creativity means fuck all in the animal world...
Once again your reply is arrogant, both toward me and the animals you pretend to know and care about, and utterly misses the point. First of all, we humans are a species of ape, and part of the animal world; as a graduate student in any subject at all you ought to be aware of that. What we identify in ourselves as "creativity," and bend to our own ends, therefore both exists in the animal world and has value in it, or it never would have evolved in the first place.
OMG! We have so surpassed any traditional definition of evolution. We live in houses, reproduce when we feel like it, we no longer hunt and you can barely call it gather. Parallels between us and others - even apes is scientifically unsound. Animals are designed to survive, pass on their genes and continue the species. Animal time budgets revolve around this - feeding, socialising, mating, rearing offspring, NOT PAINTING, escaping predators, sourcing food NOT PAINTING, can you see a pattern???
I call myself an artist so you assume I am either stupid or sentimental; I am neither. I am not anthropomorphizing the elephant. She doesn't "know what she is doing" in any context you or I would recognize. But she does possess some measure of those traits that combine to create what we think of as intelligence. And to say that humans have "surpassed evolution" is about as unscientific an assertion as I have ever heard.
I don't know what you are - uninformed is probably the most likely. Otherwise why would you even conceive of the idea that these animals want to paint pictures? You can make a horse stand on its back legs and hop rhythmically in a show to applause - would you say that too had rhythm and a sense of art?? We have surpassed evolution - we are no longer under any typical selection pressures - there's little to no thinning of the herd anymore. We are not shaped by our environments are we??
Clearly the elephant didn't DECIDE to paint. I didn't say that it wasn't trained, or even coerced. Reread what I wrote. And you are the one who is seriously uninformed. Creativity has been with us since long before we abandoned the cave (where we learned to paint) and the hunter/gatherer lifestyle; therefore it must have evolved as part of our survival toolkit. It didn't just "happen," once we started living in houses. Oh well. I'm done with you. Good luck.
OK so effectively what you are really saying is simply that the elephant must be able to lift its own trunk and picture in its head what it is supposed to paint. I see now. How profound. Yeah I'm sure cave paintings were a big help. Nothing to do with changes in diet/increased brain size/formation of language/increased social complexity/tool-weapon use/concept of farming then...I always pull out a clarinet when predator starts stalking me and if I'm really scared I'll get my big paintbrush out.
Wow you're simple. You are just shouting random crap when you weren't even provoked. Why are you so damn angry about this? No one is saying elephants are avid painters. Even if (it probably is) this is all a trained trick i think that's a pretty amazing relfection on elephant intelligence anyway. Grow up nut job.
I hate animal abuse. I love elephants. Elephants get abused behind the scenes of painting shows. Therefore I totally disagree with elephant painting. If you worked out how to scroll back dear you would see my random crap is actually responses to comments made by other people. And you call me simple...go down the page and press the underlined 2 or 3 its really easy!
@pmrooster Sure, she could have coordination beat into her. I mean, i get my dog to roll over and do backflips, and that requires a great deal of motor coordination. All it took were a couple of treats too. I don't believe that the elephants are abstracting in anyway. This is just a tourist attraction and nothing else.
Elephants are amazingly intelligent all right. But did you know that they are beaten and poked with sharp sticks and things to force them to paint? You probably didn't see any of this then, but while they're training, they can have up to four men hitting and poking them. And that's not even mentioning the "phajaan", the Thai "crushing" ritual where baby elephants' spirits are broken by horrible beatings, starvation and torture. Please don't support this abuse by going to elephant shows. Thanks.
i think it is a little presumptous to assume these elephants are treated badly, please do some research and present links with your demands on others to ask questions, otherwise your claims will be dismissed as speculation.
anyway, it seems like these elephants are enjoying themselves and are well cared for...it seems pretty different from the cruel methods of a circus. personally i think these painting elephants are really intersting considering the idea of abstract thought and creativity...
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Abuse starts prior to even teaching these elephants to paint. If you want proof look up PHAAJAAN.Most elephants in thailand undergo this extreme torture to break their spirit, so humans can control them. It is embedded in their culture and needs to be changed - some organisations are trying to teach positive reinforcement as an alternative to torture. while people continue to buy these paintings they are creating a market for further elephant exploitation.
How can they roam free when YOU and me and everyone else continue to take over their homes? Come back and preach when you yourself "roam free" hypocrite.
I have personally been to thailand and seen them paint, they are absolutely amazing. I also bought one of the pictures that an elephant painted the day I was there.
it's definitely true. don't underestimate the talent of animals. my cat has been blowing glass for years and has had many of her pieces on display at the Lane Gallery in New York on several occassions
Back in the 1960s a fellow named Red Thomas, worked at the San Diego Zoo. He trained an elephant named Carol. That's the elephant that Joan Emrey use take on the talk shows. Red use to make Carol paint like that. He'd put the brush in her trunk and he'd move her head around using her small tusk or an elephant hook. All the elephant had to do was hold the brush.
Yes, I see the trainers are standing by the elephant's head and pushing or pulling ever so slightly. I ride horses, and the best ones are those that take a very light and subtle command from leg pressure or even the rider's seat movement. Yes, the elephants are holding the brush and relenquishing it, but the conception of the painting is in the trainer's mind. Really, I believe the elephants have no idea as to the representation of what they are drawing. They like tree leaves not flowers.
I would say animals are just like ppl and cud b trined to paint but they arent. It is probably reli hard to teach them but one way or another the elephant is probably just trained.
by other painting i meant title 'elphants painting' without an exclamation point. theyre the same. different versions, but the same shape and flowers. its cheap, and people want to believe in miracles.
I hope this is true, but I've read that the trainers have implanted remote controls into the trunka nd are never far from the animal when painting. See the remote in the hand of the trainer when they walk out? I really dont' want this to be the case. I will do more research.
how do you think they can paint as well? thes elephants are victims of torture, please boycott this elephant camp
ganlanshukrea 1 day ago
The elephants paint better than I do. ;/
Velox415 5 days ago
Maybe the paintings in the caves are made by mammoths
Hespdow 3 weeks ago 10
@Hespdow Maybe mammoths teach Human to draw? *Philasorapotor*
Bubblefinno14 3 weeks ago
9gag army... ATACK!!
KATXUMPAY 3 weeks ago 7
brilliant video
xtremetom180 4 weeks ago
i love elephants!
vamprix2 4 months ago
I love how some people here are trying to prove this is fake. Probably Christians. They just can't accept the fact that animals can be highly intelligent as well.
9ssgoku 6 months ago 5
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@9ssgoku Religion has nothing to do with this subject. "Probably Christians. They just can't accept the fact that animals can be highly intelligent as well. " not true...
-I'm a Christian, and i do believe that this is true :)
RkaShuffle 4 months ago
@9ssgoku it isn't "fake." the elephant is painting, but it is not really in control. its keeper has devised and trained the elephant to follow physical commands to paint.
pizzaisfuntoeat 3 months ago
@pizzaisfuntoeat I am fully aware of that. But anyway, I bet there's TONS of animals out there which you could train to paint, right? (sarcasm)
9ssgoku 3 months ago
@9ssgoku probably are a fair amount.
pizzaisfuntoeat 3 months ago
this is fake trust me. i just read an article on it. the elephant handler tugs at the elephants ears to make horizontal and vertical lines and dots. but this doesnt mean that elephants are not extremely intelligent. dailymail.co. uk/sciencetech/article-1151283/Can-jumbo-elephants-really-paint--Intrigued-stories-naturalist-Desmond-Morris-set-truth.html
take out the space
SolarGamer 7 months ago
Forced and trained to do this apprently. Drawing this over and over and over
chizoioioi 7 months ago
tai land is the place to go.. they are extremely spiritual with elephants there.
china0090 8 months ago
Amazing to watch these incredible animals painting thanks for sharing your video
suzystar12 11 months ago
sup all
ori02021985 11 months ago
Next thing, elephants will be walking around with guns!
SorenBerthelsen96 1 year ago
cracked.com ftw.
forsurenoob 1 year ago
It's been exposed as a hoax. What one sees is a distance shot of an elephant with a paint brush making marks on paper. All of the close-ups of a trunk actually drawing an elephant show a trunk, no elephant behind it.
NotSoOldHippy 1 year ago
@NotSoOldHippy Dude shut up. Did you even watch the damn video? Not a single sentence you said is even true. What do you think they do during the live shows? Use a robot elephant?
PhunkyPhishPhan 11 months ago 2
do they really realize what are they painting or they are just made to paint particular shape?
insanewarlock666 1 year ago
@insanewarlock666 I really don't think that they are that smart to imitate what they see cause that would mean they are almost as intelligent as human..
Poprostujaola 1 year ago
@Poprostujaola But maybe elephants are as smart as small kids. Then this is posible. (imitating)
Poprostujaola 1 year ago
@Poprostujaola It's kinda dumb to think an animal can't be as intelligent as human. As a matter of fact, dolphins, pigs and elephants, among others, are known to be more intelligent than humans.
Lilitush 1 year ago
Apple chase... That is all.
c4r50n1 1 year ago
Holy cow! I mean elephant.
LuvStruckMess 1 year ago 5
It even includes a dick in the painting o.o
miramo 1 year ago 4
If an Elephant can draw other Elephants, then a Mammoth might be able to draw other mammoths. Which means the mammoth drawings in caves might not be by cavemen. Could it be that we've been fooled all this time?? Thumbs up if this makes sense.
moskovin 1 year ago 29
Elephants are fucking awesome.
sausagedogmcgee 1 year ago 6
this is way better than that dog who 'paints' that was on Conan O brien
shinesinpines 1 year ago
The elephant even painted his dick. Yup it's genuine.
Proletariat12 1 year ago 14
I FUCKING HATE PAINTING ELEPHANTS!!!!! DISLIKE!!!!!!!!
alkalinecuban 1 year ago
but he's still dumb as a house
Albyiscool 1 year ago 7
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pelsebuubi 1 year ago
That elephant is a better artist than I am.
YoshiTheBlue 1 year ago 3
I'm a little worried that I get the majority of my adult education from Cracked.com
ustink0815 1 year ago 275
@ustink0815 Me too... ._.
warXnXpeace 1 year ago
@ustink0815
hahahhaha i know right?!!?! haha. ive learned so much from that site XD
zweg2 1 year ago
@ustink0815 You and me both, just now found this thanks too...well you know
WoodenBokken 1 year ago
@ustink0815 doesnt worry me
akohler16 1 month ago
lol dumb bitch thinks she can tell how smart an animal is based on a painting he was specifically trained to paint
Kiwirnango 1 year ago
It's surprising how smart elephants are. I mean, they're still far from the smartest creatures on Earth, but they can do more than you'd think.
SergeantLuke 1 year ago
I have a painting of a tree made by an elephant in Malaysia...i witnessed the painting and even have a video of it. It's nothing too magical...i think most elephants with the right training can do it. And from my S.E.Asian experience, most elephants are trained to do a lot of stuff...not just painting...anyone want to buy the painting from me? :P
nedatronics 1 year ago
This is an exceptionally engraved wall. On it is a picture of an elephant. The elephant is painting a picture of elephants.
BrianJLeong 1 year ago
@BrianJLeong
Oh come on, aren't elephants the most dangerous animals in the game along with carps ? That sounds like a dwarf's nightmare.
Orteil42 1 year ago
haha, your woman talking at 2:20 ish, "one only has to look at Matisse" etc.
It's impressive stuff, but it is an elephant. :P
dudethekids 1 year ago
sup cracked
r0bz0rly 1 year ago 303
@r0bz0rly Cracked contributed 90 % of the views.
bountyonmyhead 1 month ago
i dont know if this sounds silly .. but do elephants only paint elephants..?
MrBfurr 1 year ago
@MrBfurr I think I saw a Discovery special where an elephent painted shapes it recognised, like a police car. It made a vague car shape with one color and made the siren with red and blue.
BLCaptainCrazy 1 year ago
fake and gay
AIienSwarm 1 year ago
It's becoming more obvious to me that the trainers (always right beside the elephants with one of their arms up!) are the ones controlling the painting. It's like facilitated communication for autistic children, which is a complete hoax. Now, see the difference between elephants painting with trainers, and those without:
/watch?v=4KW5y7SmQq4&feature=r elated
I don't doubt an elephant's intelligence. However, I don't think elephants understand how to draw a contour line. =/
deepskyblue 1 year ago
This does not separate them from us in god's eyes. To god they are just beasts in which he allows us to enslave or butcher for meat. Elephants are not even mentioned in the bible. I think they are not self conscious bescause if they are they are going to hell to burn flames FOREVER because I can't imagine elephants accepting Christ as their personal savior. They are just Meat and bones.
dr4mus 1 year ago
@dr4mus Really? Like, really really? You're using the bible as a basis for sentience? Okay, then. "And you may not eat the pig. It has split hooves but does not chew the cud, so it is ceremonially unclean for you" - Deuteronomy 14:8 Ever had bacon? Then you're ceremonially unclean, and going to hell. "You must set aside for the Lord your God all the firstborn males from your flocks and herds" Deuteronomy 15:19 Guess all those farmers that forgot to sacrifice are going to hell
Lcommadot 1 year ago
@dr4mus You either follow everything the Bible says, or espouse none of it. You can't pick and choose from the Bible.
Lcommadot 1 year ago
@dr4mus ...you are a very sad lonely freek...i have just looked on the 3 videos you have put up of yourself ...you cannot even say anything on them appart from just looking a compleat Twat....
546803 1 year ago
@dr4mus Apparently you're just meat and bones. The bible was written by men. Proof: dinosaur bones, natural disasters, holocaust, infinity of planets, no way of survival for 1 man and woman, talking pets? Ship built by 1 man that fit hundreds of tonnes of animals? wandering desert with no water? pedophilia? STDs? Threat of burning in flames?..Fuck you Christ
I don't know if these elephants were forced to this or not, but either way I think its incredible they have ability to do this, if its real
frenchiman55 1 year ago
This is nothing new. This dates from like 4-5 years ago. I knew that some elephants can paint. I am not surprised. I'm amazed. I love it.
nellie2581 1 year ago
no se como pueden utilizar a los animales como entreteniemiento, es repugnante que la gente sea tan ciega y crea que es bonito ver a un elefante pintandoooooooooo, que devastadoras imgenes...!!!
bbbannff 1 year ago
BOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Stop fucking abusing animals, you fucking bigots! I wish these terrible people would fucking die of aids, the living piles of shit! Imagine how many times that elephant has been beaten to a pulp to train the poor to make that one painting.
Don't be fooled people, this is just circus trickery, and it's animal abuse - one of the worst kinds of animal abuse!
Boooooooooooooooooooo!
PesteleCelViteaz 1 year ago
@PesteleCelViteaz YOU are whats wrong with the world. Hate-filled angry, venomous rage spewed upon those with whom you disagree. Whatever philosophy you hold about animal torture is made irrelevant by your irrational insulting fume. Who would take your "alleged" love for animals seriously? Based on your raging rant, one would assume you yank the wings off of butterflies.
ionamic 1 year ago
@ionamic I was just appalled at how misleading this elephant gag is. Please don't asume you know me. The problem is people harming animals and thus training them to paint 10 lines and then make money off of this.
PesteleCelViteaz 1 year ago
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fyi elephants don't paint this way of their own volition, they have been trained to duplicate images for sale to tourists. inquiring minds can find TRUE creations from elephant artists. see elephant art gallery spotting a fake
lddrummerhill 1 year ago
Please see YouTube video ' Torture In Thailand ' to see why these animals are so complient to humen wishes.Basically, what you are seeing are highly damged elephants that have been forcably removed from mother at 3yrs of age and put thru a process called 'Breaking The Spirit'. During which they literally have 'the shit beaten out of them' as they frequently defacat in terror during this week[s] long process. Please don't buy these; 'Art-Works-Of-Shame'
226843 2 years ago 3
Stop this ABUSE!!
Elephants die during the traing!
Help the elephants, don't buy this paintings!
More info: elephantnaturefoundation
79nicole 2 years ago
Have any actual proof? I do not see how an elephant can die during training to paint a picture. That's like saying all service dogs are abused. They're taught with positive reinforcement.
Fleefles 2 years ago
WTF I'm just so amazed that it actually recognizes what other elephants look like and then is actually manages put it on paper using its trunk!
Words cannot describe this work of art
Effthiswebsite 2 years ago
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Finally, to anyone who has seen the elephant painting videos, these are a the result of very cruel and consistent punishment at the end of barbed metal hooks and it is imperative that we stop purchasing them or supporting these organizations. What you don't see on those YouTube videos is the elephant urinating in fear as it is handed the paint brush.
PrincessJuJuBear 2 years ago
It is so obvious that the elephants have been trained to do this like everything else they have been trained to do. It is evil and stops them from living their natural life. The earth is over-run with humans, and yet we feel it necessary to slay the few elephants left there are just to make more space for us. Look more closely and you will see that the elephant is controlled by the person on the left and that they are just afraid that they will be punished if they do not do what the person wants
xxloulou13xx 2 years ago
yeah they probably beat the elephants until they did their dumb ass tricks
jmsmerdon 2 years ago
The Earth isn't "over-run" with humans. And if its such a big deal to you, just kill yourself instead of contributing to the "problem." And while you whine over elephants being removed to make human homes, I bet you have no problem wtih all the insects, rodents, bunnies, and large predators killed to make room for YOU. Stop being selfish and let other humans make room for themselves on this Earth like you have.
Fleefles 2 years ago
haha yeah that's a better painting of an elephant than i could do
Portafest 2 years ago 5
when you think about it its only like cave drawings of past apes that evolved into humans, Watch Out Elephants will take over the world, till they have to get a plane your 'trunk' can only weigh 20kg! hahahaha
Areyouworried 2 years ago 2
The elephant can paint better than me!
PeePooCurbinBleu 2 years ago 5
Really? What species do you belong to?
BandytaCzasu 2 years ago
If that elephant is smart enough to know how to do that, that is impressive. Even if it is just a trick and they trained him to do that it is still very impressive.
NotAnUndercoverCop 2 years ago
elephants and other animal as well are and should not belong in a zoo and do tricks
i feel so bad for them
hellolovesmile 2 years ago 4
animal r great...i luv them...they r smart good friends, i´m sure i would give my life for my dog if ii have to...more than twice i almost go to jail protecting them & i´m proud of it
vLi535 2 years ago
i was watching this on t.v. and it was true. and on the tv people left bad comments. she was a really good painter. her name was hon i think.
raggee21 2 years ago
thats amazing:] i cant even draw a elephant. that elephant is smart
StephanieRuizTv 2 years ago
wow! if an elephant can draw so well , human could! Co0l~
cutiekelie 2 years ago
that is so cool
basketballover11 2 years ago
dieser elefant trägt so viel poesie in sich :)
sweethomezwigge 3 years ago
i dont get how an elephant can paint like that in the beginning!! all ive seen them paint was lines that overlap each other and turn out reallly sloppy.
weloveyouuuu 3 years ago
dejen en paz a los elefantes hijos de puta
paulmaiden95 3 years ago 4
Painting Elephant
RVCAndrew 3 years ago
dude. Elaphants are smart...
mvwheelock 3 years ago
Elephants that 'paint' or 'play music' have all been trained in this fashion, in fact every single elephant you ride in Thailand has been treated in this way, and it's horrible. By supporting those tourist attractions, you are supporting the tortue of these amazing creatures.
xxxbabyphatxxxx 3 years ago
h4x0r. 1 4m 1337.
roflroflroflroflrofl
soisoisoisoisoisoi
emiliolio 3 years ago
looks fake to me
emiliolio 3 years ago
Elephants can't paint, just like homo sapiens can't paint. Oh, and moneys can't speak sign language, dogs can't communicate, animals can't memorize anything or have any creative ability. Animals, especially humans who think this video is "fake", are stupid.
Don't be so pompous, Pinocchio. Give Dumbo some credit.
SaveMySanctuary 3 years ago
I think watching elephants paint is more interesting than watching them do tricks, but that's just me.
Nice video.
Kaleiphant 3 years ago 5
painting is a trick just like standing on hind legs is a trick. but i understand what u mean, i thinking watching them do THIS trick is more interesting.
mike41990 2 years ago
But how can anyone treat these wonderful animals like that? They`re not toys. They are ver intelligent, they feel pain, they have a soul. In an ideal world, the people who abused them would be imprisoned.
sweetfranx 3 years ago 2
In an ideal world some one would eat that elephant.
jovib1 3 years ago
in an ideal world someone would eat YOU.
sweetfranx 3 years ago
Just beautiful beyond description.
Trallalinda08 3 years ago
It's a fake. Elephants can't paint this realistically. They paint abstract squiggles.
usethetube1111 3 years ago
I think this is a fake, too. But the elephants are still SO cute!
sweetfranx 3 years ago
guys plz see my drawing and comment =]
johnny0drawx 3 years ago
WOOOOW !!!
xolulu268 3 years ago
Im not sure what to say... I bewildered. I know it must be real but it is so crazy!!!
CinematiclyAwesome 3 years ago
All these elephants have been abused and yet, they paint elephants holding vibrant roses. Elephants are so amazing.
RockyMHorse 3 years ago
rofl
overether 3 years ago
That is absolutely amazing.
Gorloche1 3 years ago 10
that elephant is a better artist than me 0__0
flyingmonkey5000 3 years ago 6
dude!
edjenkids 3 years ago
That is awesome!!!!!!! it he reallu painting? II asked my mom and she said I dont think so and I was like Yes huh! I am 12 years old! BYE
edjenkids 3 years ago
i want a elephant
PiereSmirnoff 3 years ago
Speaking as an artist - it is impossible to "beat" any creature into having that kind of coordination - the elephant has to be capable of, at the very least, holding an image in her mind of what she wants to accomplish, and to know when she's reached her goal, regardless of whether she understands what it might mean to "paint a picture."
pmrooster 3 years ago 13
They're still being beat to perform. Sure they have natural talent, but have no say as to when they want to use it, they're forced into using it by whatever means will get the job done.
Truesage 3 years ago
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I think the paper have a stencil to guide the elephant when he trace tha paint over. So he is not painting , he is just tracing over.
heragh 3 years ago
even if he is just tracing, you don't find that amazing? So he has the ability of a first grader. That's pretty good.
keslerkaiyu 3 years ago 3
YES, YOU'RE RIGHT!
heragh 3 years ago
You're speaking as an artist - what do you know about elephants exactly?
Does a parrot look at mini bicycle in a circus and pictures in it's mind where it wants to go on the bike, does it picture its final destination and the wind ruffling the feathers on it head? Of course not. The elephant is very carefully guided by the man standing next to it, one hand under the trunk, the other against the side of it head, with or without a sharp nail to remind the elephant to behave. Been there, seen it.
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago
What do I know about elephants? Apparently, just a touch more than you - whatever you choose to call yourself. I can see very clearly in the video where the trainer's hands are - close to the elephant's mouth. Whether or not he is causing the elephant pain, which he very well may be, is a matter for you to decide, along with others who have "been there." But as a professional illustrator, I've been poked with a sharp stick to make me paint too. It doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing.
pmrooster 3 years ago
It would be impossible to hold the elephant's trunk and "guide" it to reproduce the results seen here without the beast itself having some level of participation. The dexterity and fine motor skills required exist in the connection between the mind and the muscles at the tip of the trunk, the ones directly holding the brush. I get that you want to see these animals released into the wild and left unmolested. I agree.
pmrooster 3 years ago
Well as a post-graduate vet student who has also studied cognitive evolution and animal behaviour I have the credentials. Given that all living things are a product of evolution and therefore the environmental niche they live in - what is the evolutionary advantage does the 'ability to paint' confer? Nothing. You're totally anthopomorphising elephants to fit what you would love to consider intelligence and creativity. Creativity means fuck all in the animal world...
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago
Once again your reply is arrogant, both toward me and the animals you pretend to know and care about, and utterly misses the point. First of all, we humans are a species of ape, and part of the animal world; as a graduate student in any subject at all you ought to be aware of that. What we identify in ourselves as "creativity," and bend to our own ends, therefore both exists in the animal world and has value in it, or it never would have evolved in the first place.
pmrooster 3 years ago
OMG! We have so surpassed any traditional definition of evolution. We live in houses, reproduce when we feel like it, we no longer hunt and you can barely call it gather. Parallels between us and others - even apes is scientifically unsound. Animals are designed to survive, pass on their genes and continue the species. Animal time budgets revolve around this - feeding, socialising, mating, rearing offspring, NOT PAINTING, escaping predators, sourcing food NOT PAINTING, can you see a pattern???
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago
I call myself an artist so you assume I am either stupid or sentimental; I am neither. I am not anthropomorphizing the elephant. She doesn't "know what she is doing" in any context you or I would recognize. But she does possess some measure of those traits that combine to create what we think of as intelligence. And to say that humans have "surpassed evolution" is about as unscientific an assertion as I have ever heard.
pmrooster 3 years ago
I don't know what you are - uninformed is probably the most likely. Otherwise why would you even conceive of the idea that these animals want to paint pictures? You can make a horse stand on its back legs and hop rhythmically in a show to applause - would you say that too had rhythm and a sense of art?? We have surpassed evolution - we are no longer under any typical selection pressures - there's little to no thinning of the herd anymore. We are not shaped by our environments are we??
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago
Clearly the elephant didn't DECIDE to paint. I didn't say that it wasn't trained, or even coerced. Reread what I wrote. And you are the one who is seriously uninformed. Creativity has been with us since long before we abandoned the cave (where we learned to paint) and the hunter/gatherer lifestyle; therefore it must have evolved as part of our survival toolkit. It didn't just "happen," once we started living in houses. Oh well. I'm done with you. Good luck.
pmrooster 3 years ago
OK so effectively what you are really saying is simply that the elephant must be able to lift its own trunk and picture in its head what it is supposed to paint. I see now. How profound. Yeah I'm sure cave paintings were a big help. Nothing to do with changes in diet/increased brain size/formation of language/increased social complexity/tool-weapon use/concept of farming then...I always pull out a clarinet when predator starts stalking me and if I'm really scared I'll get my big paintbrush out.
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago
Wow you're simple. You are just shouting random crap when you weren't even provoked. Why are you so damn angry about this? No one is saying elephants are avid painters. Even if (it probably is) this is all a trained trick i think that's a pretty amazing relfection on elephant intelligence anyway. Grow up nut job.
Spirituse 3 years ago
I hate animal abuse. I love elephants. Elephants get abused behind the scenes of painting shows. Therefore I totally disagree with elephant painting. If you worked out how to scroll back dear you would see my random crap is actually responses to comments made by other people. And you call me simple...go down the page and press the underlined 2 or 3 its really easy!
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago
Keep this in mind; how is training a seal to play horns with positive reinforcement any different than training a human to do the same?
Raptoridaner 3 years ago
agreed
Spirituse 3 years ago
U r so right...we have passed evolution....(i wish sarcasm could be delivered more clearly in text) thanx for the great insight : )
mike41990 2 years ago
@pmrooster Sure, she could have coordination beat into her. I mean, i get my dog to roll over and do backflips, and that requires a great deal of motor coordination. All it took were a couple of treats too. I don't believe that the elephants are abstracting in anyway. This is just a tourist attraction and nothing else.
StopTryingULookDumb 1 year ago
Elephants are amazingly intelligent all right. But did you know that they are beaten and poked with sharp sticks and things to force them to paint? You probably didn't see any of this then, but while they're training, they can have up to four men hitting and poking them. And that's not even mentioning the "phajaan", the Thai "crushing" ritual where baby elephants' spirits are broken by horrible beatings, starvation and torture. Please don't support this abuse by going to elephant shows. Thanks.
journeyman47 3 years ago
that would suck to be an elephant
Ron2814 3 years ago
i think it is a little presumptous to assume these elephants are treated badly, please do some research and present links with your demands on others to ask questions, otherwise your claims will be dismissed as speculation.
anyway, it seems like these elephants are enjoying themselves and are well cared for...it seems pretty different from the cruel methods of a circus. personally i think these painting elephants are really intersting considering the idea of abstract thought and creativity...
surpriseitsjess 3 years ago 4
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Abuse starts prior to even teaching these elephants to paint. If you want proof look up PHAAJAAN.Most elephants in thailand undergo this extreme torture to break their spirit, so humans can control them. It is embedded in their culture and needs to be changed - some organisations are trying to teach positive reinforcement as an alternative to torture. while people continue to buy these paintings they are creating a market for further elephant exploitation.
enigreg 3 years ago
i think this is horrible
their making animals a circus
for their entertainment
all animals should roam free
Jellybean195 3 years ago 2
maybe the elephant likes painting. Ever think of that.... Huh, did you.....Huh
watsonz 3 years ago 2
does your pet roam free? didnt think so....
wurth987456 3 years ago
How can they roam free when YOU and me and everyone else continue to take over their homes? Come back and preach when you yourself "roam free" hypocrite.
samuricex 3 years ago
He drew himself anatomically correct too. Now that's *really* something.
jayleeds2006 3 years ago
those elephants draw better than i ever will
andyKanerva 3 years ago 4
elefunts cant pante its a man in a elefunt soot
gretabigolfatass 3 years ago
I have personally been to thailand and seen them paint, they are absolutely amazing. I also bought one of the pictures that an elephant painted the day I was there.
huejass05 3 years ago
its smart its obviously an asian elephant
themetalman92 3 years ago 3
how come in all these elephant videos the camera-person is never on the same side as the trainer?
websterjtc 3 years ago
Do you want to see the trainer standing in front of the elephant while it is painting?
joeyyowee 3 years ago
is this elephan africanelephant? or is it asian elephant? My quess is african..
Ravenlord79 3 years ago
Check the ears, it is Asian.
patteel 3 years ago
asian, it has smaller tusks, if any
MaverixHunter 3 years ago
ohh. they are really incredible :D
PortugueseR3dMoon 3 years ago
my gerbil is studying psychology lately...
pbertiny 3 years ago
is the creature enrolled in an acredited program or is it more of an "independent studies" type thing?
squarheaded 3 years ago 4
haha
pbertiny 3 years ago
hahaha
Jezebel333 3 years ago
Awesome.
k6yardotcom 3 years ago
that is pretty cool
andrewjackson111 3 years ago
Ninja-- Are you sure it isn't a gerbil, and are you sure that it is glass.
unevernojq 3 years ago
it's definitely true. don't underestimate the talent of animals. my cat has been blowing glass for years and has had many of her pieces on display at the Lane Gallery in New York on several occassions
squarheaded 3 years ago 4
yea same here i have a hamster that can blow glass
SamuriNinja90 3 years ago
lol....funny!
strat39 3 years ago
i've seen squarheaded's cat's work and i must say it really is amazing.
n30neuromancer 3 years ago
Back in the 1960s a fellow named Red Thomas, worked at the San Diego Zoo. He trained an elephant named Carol. That's the elephant that Joan Emrey use take on the talk shows. Red use to make Carol paint like that. He'd put the brush in her trunk and he'd move her head around using her small tusk or an elephant hook. All the elephant had to do was hold the brush.
TheZenBanjoist 3 years ago
Yes, I see the trainers are standing by the elephant's head and pushing or pulling ever so slightly. I ride horses, and the best ones are those that take a very light and subtle command from leg pressure or even the rider's seat movement. Yes, the elephants are holding the brush and relenquishing it, but the conception of the painting is in the trainer's mind. Really, I believe the elephants have no idea as to the representation of what they are drawing. They like tree leaves not flowers.
lloydbrandon2001 3 years ago
I would say animals are just like ppl and cud b trined to paint but they arent. It is probably reli hard to teach them but one way or another the elephant is probably just trained.
yellowtwetty 3 years ago
wow!!!! it can draw better than me!!lolz
yooglegoo 3 years ago 3
Why don't you all watch, take it in, and keep your stupid comments to yourselves. That shit is real, and its tight. That shit is real tight
vitopetroni 3 years ago
by other painting i meant title 'elphants painting' without an exclamation point. theyre the same. different versions, but the same shape and flowers. its cheap, and people want to believe in miracles.
bassblonde 3 years ago
this is just like the other painting. they were trained to paint like this.
bassblonde 3 years ago 4
wow that's so cool!
candyhmmcadavs101 3 years ago
I hope this is true, but I've read that the trainers have implanted remote controls into the trunka nd are never far from the animal when painting. See the remote in the hand of the trainer when they walk out? I really dont' want this to be the case. I will do more research.
nancy4366 3 years ago