I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand, maybe some people are cruel, but some cultures respect them and see them as friends. They are incredibly smart, and have always been one of my favorite animals. Maybe this elephant enjoys to paint. He's creative and seems to enjoy it, if he wants to mimic a human let him. I've had many surprising pets that did things on their own because they liked to do it so this isn't shocking to me, it's beautiful. RESPECT
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 and this painting isn't any good beacause they are mindless, spiritless drones
@dr4mus Wow, psycho much? Get over yourself, the fact that they're so intelligent and can create art is astonishing. Don't hate the world so much, it's a beautiful, amazing place. Don't belittle everything just because your god apparently tells you to do so. Enjoy life, don't tear it apart. (And apparently, your delusion doesn't allow you to appreciate beauty in nature, which is a shame.)
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
I always believed humans weren't the smartest animal on earth and here is proof. I noticed she is kinda shaky having hands would help a lot, still better than some people though!!!
Guys, quit arguing over this. Stop regurgitating the results of erroneous Google searches, and bear in mind that elephants are extremely intelligent and can paint by themselves, given a paintbrush, paints and canvas. Elephants born in captivity don't suffer from abuse, and are positively rewarded most of the time, in developed countries with laws regarding animal cruelty.
However, elephants shouldn't be hunted for their tusks because they are basically like us, as proven by the above video.
The only difference is their shape, and their retracted technological level. They have problem solving abilities, feelings and are altruistic (i.e. they care for other animals, like elephants and humans).
@LOLCaatz Proven? Uh, no. They're trained to do this. Granted, I'm still impressed by the act, but that elephant is displaying dexterity & obedience, not creativity.
@LOLCaatz Keep telling yourself that: that these vids are taking place "in developed countries (snicker!) with laws regarding animal cruelty (ha ha!) and maybe you'll actually believe it yourself.
Look, I've BEEN there, man. Don't try to sell snow to your grandpaw. I know what those countries are really like, and they don't give a shit about anything but themselves. Period. THE ELEPHANTS are BEATEN! Why is that so hard to accept??
000snow000: If Elephants did this of their own free will in the wild, fair enough, but they dont! It's been forced to do this for humans "pleasure". Bad....REAL bad.....
@Boolglunk . What I meant was, if there were evidence of Elephants "painting" or drawing with twigs or sticks in the soil etc in the wild, fair enough but, to my knowledge at least, there isn't, so...the poor things been trained, or forced, to do this. Either way, I'd still rather see it roaming about in the wild with it's family. I know I'm odd to want that, but that's just me I'm afraid.
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.
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Would be nice to see this elephant with, oh say, a herd of elephants. Maybe knocking over a few trees, having lunch, then maybe moseying down to a river to roll around in the water, cool themselves off. Painting? No.
nah man just click on other videos simular to this one there is one that shows the elephant paint an entire picture from strat to finish, the elephant really did paint this picture
what's with the controversy? this is about the brilliant mind of an elephant. for an elephant to even listen to the trainer and paint, it's pretty amazing. get over it. an elephant paints, that itself is great. shut up with ohhh- it gets abused- crap. it might, poor thing but u never know.
bledar: "You never know" is the attitude that contributes to continued abuse. Actually, I DO know. I've spoken personally with Lek Chailert (google her) while volunteering at her elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai. Of course elephants are brilliant. That's exactly why they should NOT be dragged from their mothers and family and forced to paint for clueless tourists. One of her baby elephants was taken from the wonderful park by the owner to be trained for this crap. And THAT's what this is about.
they were actually rescued elephants, so they get better treated here than most places, and they sell the painting for 1000's of £/$, which goes towards funding them.
Someone should put some talking lips on the elephant and start a new "Joy of Painting" show. Let the elephant give painting tips. Surely people would think they could paint if they are taught by an elephant that could. lol
There are many reasons why this is wrong and shouldn't be supported. The main reason is because Asian elephant babies are being torn from their mothers and broken to be docile enough to make the silly paintings. The "breaking" ritual (phaajaan) is a horrible week-long session of torture that's so bad many elephants don't even survive. Not to mention the cruelty of separating babies from mothers and their aunties.
Lek Chailert of the Elephant Sanctuary asks you not to support this abuse. Thanks.
Actually this is done at a park for rescue elephants. This particular elephant is retired from the timber industry where she formerly hauled logs, and is one of approximately 3000 domesticated elephants living in thailand.
Particletheory: Yeah? What's the name of this "park that rescues elephants?" Any sanctuary worth its salt does not make money by making its animals do tricks for tourists. The Elephant Nature Park (google it) is one of the very, very few REAL sanctuaries in Thailand; they let their elephants do what they want, and give them only love and safety, not easels and paintbrushes. You seem to know a bit about Thai elephants; keep researching them and dig into the real truth behind the scenes.
You don't know what you're talking about. The organization he speaks of has raised tens of thousands that have been used for elephant rescue and protection.
You went to a place that makes money off tourists, and they told you the money you gave them went to "rescue and protection".
I went to the Elephant Nature Park sanctuary, which makes NO money off tourists, and they told us about the cruelty behind the scenes at places like this.
Who ya gonna believe? It''s all about money, trust me.
a man pushing a paintbrush on a fully grown elephant has no chance is that elephant doesnt feel like it. I don't see any panic or distress in these animals. Think a little before you jump to conclusions
@000snow000 Sigh! Trust, me, Snow, I ain't "jumping to conclusions". I have EXTENSIVELY researched this, AND been there IN PERSON and spoke to the top elephant people in the country. Of course you don't see any "panic" in the elephants. You see only what they want you to see. You don't see the babies dragged from their mothers (who fight to keep them),or tortured into submission until they are broken to be trained, or the endless boring hours of training to paint. It's not right, man.
This must be like a school that teaches elephants to draw because in the background of "ORIGINAL elephant painting" then you can see this painting being carried off. Kudos, to the teachers.
... doesn't this show the intelligence of an elephant? Also, how could you possibly go about abusing an elephant to paint? This isn't exactly standing up on two feet, also its probably safer where its at currently than the wild. If you haven't noticed the wilderness is the unsafest spot for an animal at the moment.
NO NO NO NO NO!!!! It doesnt show the elephant's intelligence!!! The f***ing mahout standing next to the elephant is telling it where to put the paint for crying out loud!! The abuse is non-stop! From beating the shit out of the elephant with knives and hooks to pick up the paintbrush through to the end of the day where it's kept away from it's mother to paint more pictures - to supply idiots who think this is 'charming'. No the 'wilderness' is not safe - people need to put their f***ing energy
into trying to set up protected conservation areas for wild elephants INSTEAD of encouraging more elephants to be caught from the wild to be put in shows and entertain TOTAL GOONS.
@Zarbon66 Of course "the wild" isn't safe, as long as there are idiots with guns and trucks going around kidnapping wild elephants, or asshole poachers murdering them.
But it doesn't mean it's ok to force them to perform stupid tricks for clueless tourists. Two wrongs don't make a right.
If this "camp" really claims to help elephants, they should just let them BE ELEPHANTS, not painters or football players or whatever. There is one such sanctuary like that: the Elephant Nature Park.
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This poor animal is obviously abused, we do not see elephants in their natural habitat doing paintings on canvas. They have been beaten by bullhooks and forced to do this for stupid tourists who BUY the paintings. It is very sad, b/c the elephant is intelligent enough to be forced to learn the dumb trick, but also smart enough to know he/she should be somewhere better.
It shocks me how people can accused the elephant conservation camps of abuse without any evidence. By posting up baseless accusations, you are undermining the very people that are actually doing something to help the elephants. Just googling would reveal the terrible situation that the elephants are in and how the people at the conservation camps are trying to save the elephants. You should be ashamed of yourself for thinking that your comment is "helping".
ummm actuallyy i worked in this conservation center this summer and it is anything but abuse soo unless you have been to thailand and worked with these people and elephants in this center i would stop talking because you clearly do not know what your talking about. these elephants are mostly ex-logging elephants because logging was outlawed in thailand and the elephants had no where to go. you dont know what you talking about so dont make a rude comment
Actually I volunteered with elephants with this summer in Thailand with Lek Chailert, I visited the ECC too. I watched an elephant show with elephant painting and saw that they also gave out elephant rides. As a holder of a Bsc hons where I studied conservation I can, quite informedly say, that the ECC is a wank excuse for a conservation centre. To imply you are a conservation centre would mean you were educating the public to the importance of conserving habitat and the elephant species..
within it - not putting on a bloody show for tourists that is slowly but surely being realised as the bane of the Asian elephant. I don't care if this centre is all super duper and has rescued its elephants from logging (which by the way people elephants are better suited to and designed for than trekking) the centre is encouraging a trade where ELSEWHERE elephants are being trained extremely abusively to keep up with the demand from naive tourists...
AsianElephant: Thanks for stating the truth about what goes on behind the scenes at these places. Unfortunately it seems that some people even commenting right after you didn't even bother to read what you said, or ignored it, because they still seem clueless about it. Hey, at least you tried, and very well, I might add. Keep on trying!
OMG,stop talking shit and just ASSUMING things just because you heard about it happening somehwere else!!!
The elephants here get treated amazingly and are NOT beaten or have anything bad/cruel done to them to make them do this!!
The reason they dont do it in the wild is cause they dont have hands to make a fucking canvas/paint brush with you retarded scare mongerer........your one of these people that jump on the bandwagon and talk as if you know whats happening when you dont.....Learn more.
you responded by saying the elephants were not abused. I am so sorry, I lived in thailand for years, and currently and also BECAUSE OF YOUR CRUEL VIDEO, poor Thais (its a desperately poor country, check your facts) are capturing baby elephants in order to train them for MONEY....(and its not nice training, you go watch for yourself, not at that glorious little tourist trap place either, go where you have to speak thai to survive) .. this isn't natural for any elephant.
You don't know what you are talking about and you are a fake. By posting up baseless accusations, you are undermining the very people that are actually doing something to help the elephants. Just googling would reveal the terrible situation that the elephants are in and how the people at the conservation camps are trying to save the elephants. You should be ashamed of yourself for thinking that your comment is "helping".
these pictures make me soo sat at humanities ability to be manipulated. it seems like people will just believe what they want to believe and somehow unconsciously ignore all of the glaring inaccuracies of their sentiments. obviously this elephant is not really drawing. it was trained to move its tusk in certain patterns when its trainer tugs it in a certain way. they could do this with any animal that has a limb. at least this helps me understand why so many people still go to church haha
It is true that these extremely intelligent animals already have the intellectual capacity to create these masterpieces from their personal experiences, but most often when these elephants are painting, it is easy to see that they are taught what to paint. I guarantee that if an elephant were completely free to express itself, it wouldn't be painting pre-fabricated images of flowers or itself, let alone with the appropriate corresponding colors.
@ginjet27: You are cracked!! This so isn't true. At least not for these particular elephants. They were rescued from abusive situations and brought here. No force is used in their training here. Yes, some elephants ARE abused, but these no longer are.
Yeah well on Animal Planet Tv last night they showed these guys painting and some paaintings domne by elephants and there was one that was dome by a elephant that went mad and killed a person, and it was put down! Deal with that !
Elephants are amazingly intelligent. But did you know that they are beaten and poked with sharp sticks to train them? It's true. While they're training, they 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. Personally I'd rather see them behaving naturally, not doing silly tricks.
The treatment you decribe was done to SOME trained elephants and it is disgraceful. But you imply that it was used in every single case of elephant training, and this is not so. More humane methods can also be used - encouragement rather than punishment. I like seeing them in natural environemnt but I also like to see them enjoy themselves as I think this one is.
Every single working elephant you see in Thailand has gone through the "crushing" phajaan ritual, a terrible week-long ordeal of beating, starvation and torture that's so harsh many don't even survive. To the Thais this is the accepted and only way to control them. Then when they are trained for any new task (painting included) the same mindset occurs, and the same techniques. If there are some which are NOT beaten while training, how can you know which ones? Better to avoid them all to be sure.
Exactly!How do we know who is torturing these amazing creatures and who is not?Yeah,what these elephants are painting is unbelievable,but how did they get to that point?While I was watching I was hoping that who ever taught them these human skills were patient and treat the elephants well. It's incredible what we humans do for money and fun.I wish the human race will get more considerate with each other and especially with indefense creatures.Supporting events like this one is supporting cruelty
Go to the website of the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand (we are not allowed to post websites here) and read all about it; and look up "Phajaan" on the web. Some sources are difficult to find, especially about what goes on in training the elephants to paint; they're as secretive as U.S. factory farms because they know no westerner would go if they knew the truth. I had to go to Thailand and talk to people firsthand who are active in elephant rescue & rehab. Trust me, they're accurate.
@journeyman47 actually, believe it or not, elephants DO do this in the wild when they are by themselves. They just are "abstract" marks and patterns. If you look up Ruby, the first elephant to do this, she did this all on her own with out any training what to ever. I'm not saying it's ok to torture elephants, I'm just saying that elephants can already do "paintings"
@journeyman47 Thank you for pointing that out. Even though they are incredibly intelligent animals, chances are these elephants have gone through torture to do this. Did you visit Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai Thialand, by chance? That's where I saw undercover footage of a baby being trained for painting. It was one of the most horrific things to watch...unless i saw real-life training when I was in Surin. You never forget the sights and sounds of an ele in training with a bullhook :(
@littlefurballs Sorry it took so long for me to reply; I don't usually use that email account. Yes, I did in fact volunteer for a week at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, the only TRUE elephant sanctuary in Thailand, despite what the others claim. I highly recommend a visit for a day or a week to anyone going to Thailand-- MUCH better than some stupid "camp" where elephants are forced to perform idiotic tricks and haul fat tourists' butts around on their backs.
@BanWolfHunting@BanWolfHunting No worries and thanks for the response. I concur with your comments on ENP, although there is also Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary too. If anyone is interested in the Elephant Nature Park, visit their page on google (I can't post an url in the comments). DON'T support ele trekking, painting, circuses, or street begging.
@BanWolfHunting thanks for the tip! I haven't been to Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary yet, but a lot of my friends who I met through Elephant Nature Park visited the sanctuary after our time at ENP and they loved it.Just like ENP but smaller. So, I'll be going there in March 2011. There's also a project I'm working with in Surin: surinprojectdotorg. It's by the same foundation that supports ENP. It's in its infancy stage, but so rewarding. If you go back, I highly recmd supporting it.
@BanWolfHunting Also, I've never been here, but I think PoD's Wildlife Center is a reputable sanctuary, as well. Google "Volunteer At A wildlife Rescue Centre in Thailand" and you'll come to PoD's site. I had corresponded with the admin there last year and it seems legit. They put the potential volunteers through a similar screening process as other sanctuaries i've applied to.
I can't see how he could be guiding it, his arm is steady behind the canvas. I'm not saying an elephant can easily paint a wonderful picture of a humans perception of a flowers, but he definitely does have at least some bit of talent.
Check out 'Elephant Painting' from ExoticWorldGifts on here- it shows from the start to the finish, and he human just hands the elephant a paintbrush and steps back. She paints a whole picture by herself. (At least it looks like a she from here)
the elephant is not amazing because its probably been doing the same damned painting for decades its nothing but a cheap trick like teaching a dog to roll over WOOW big deal.
so youre saying if you had tought your dog to paint a wonderful picture beyond the capacity of some humans you wouldn't think it was a big deal? rolling over is something a dog does naturally, painting is a human feat and teaching an entirely different species to do so is amazing
Obviously the elephant was trained to paint, but it's still pretty impressive. The trainer doesn't seem to have to guide the elephant that much (as opposed to other insane cruel animal tricks) but I think he's there just to hold the canvas in place (it would most likely move around too much, even if it was posted on a tree. You would most likely need to reinforce it plenty).
@viacazo Umm, sorry, but an elephant "wagging" his tail does NOT mean he's happy, like it would in a dog. If a cat wags her tail does it mean the same thing as a dog? Of course not! It's the same with elephants.
They naturally wave their tails constantly to keep flies away, like horses and cows do.
I hope you've learned a bit more about other animals in the past two years.
i dont know if its cruel... I'd have to see how they treat and train the elephants... thats what i'm REALLLLY curious about. They countries arent known for their humane treatment of animals... thats my only concern
Wow, this is truly a stupid post. Yeah, we all know that all pet owners in Thailand are evil. Just like all pet owners in America are saints. Stop stereotyping, there are plenty of elephants in Thailand that are thought of as part of the family, and not just a pet. Could this elephant be treated badly? Sure, just about as much as your neighbor's dog may get beat every night.
There are elephants In Thailand that I went to see last year on a school trip, one elephant was named Lao Ztu or something and it had been trained to hold a paint brush by it's keeper and then the man would hold it's trunk and trace pictures on the canvas. The elephant memerized most of these pictures and now it does them on it's on, and even adds details that weren't there before. This is the elephant that paints it's self portrait. I saw him paint it on it's own, with no verbal help or touch.
How are they harming the elephant? Elephants are inteligent, more inteligent than us when it comes to certain aspects, and they deffinetely know what there doing and this elephant is no exception. It knows it's doing something different and it most likely enjoys doing it because it's something NEW and CREATIVE, and animals like new and creative things too btw. If this elephant didn't want to paint then it probably wouldn't paint. And if it was forced into painting, it probably wouldn't paint...
...such precise pictures, it would probably just dump the paint on the canvas and be done with it (which some do, because they are Forced into doing it, but this elephant is not) There are always going to be people saying "Thats animal Cruelty" when theres no aspect of cruelty involved. Get your information right before you accuse a creative and profound art of being cruel.
I am a personal trainner for my own African Grey Parrot(Video can be seen on my channel)
It is just because the animal cannot talk, it doesn't mean that they are not capable of learning and proforming....You cannot expect an animal to everything that a human can do like refilling the paint brush...A trainer has to understand the animal first...This is just a unique painting......
XDradio is being a bit harsh but is correct. If you look close you will see there are 2 people there. One is stitting down holding the paper and then there is a person on the other side behind the elephant. You can see them move towards the end of the clip. They are guiding the elephants trunk by the tusk. The elephant is painting with help from a person. A elephant can paint alone but it is much less controled then this.
No, ding-dong, the person's hand is not on the trunk. If you had any powers of observation you would see that one hand is supporting the canvass, and the other is dangling at the thigh. The only illusion here is your own intellectual superiority to the rest of us stupid-heads who enjoy a simple but remarkable amusement, knowingly and with integrity.
whats more amazing is elephants can pick up single grain of rice with their trunk, detect water in the desert when they are thirsty and have amazing memory. They are amazing animal
If buying a picture could save an elephants life, I'd buy it in a minute. How many are left in Thailand? How many hurt from injury? How little does it take to save a species as wonderful as these amazing animals? Thank you for posting this wonderful video.
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Why do they only show the elephant finishing the art work. Scammed people, scammed!!! You have to be there to really see an elephant do it to know if it is for real. phony baloney's
dumbass. check out the other videos that show it all from the start. I'm sure all those people standing there with this particular elephant were in on the scam... It is a credit to the training and the elephant's intelligence. You, on the other hand...
Think about what they see everyday, what an elephant focuses on. I know that I'd want to paint flowers too if my world revolved mostly around nature and eating plants. Perhaps it's a fascination with color, or maybe a primitive concept of beauty. Who can say?
I am amazed at how no one realizes what tourture this animals have been put through to learn this action. It is not normal for an elephant to perfom like this, and although they are very intelligent the people that are with them are constantly pulling on their ears to remind them to perform or else. I am outraged, i know its cute and pretty but i just think what they have gone through to please people.
Wow I never thought elephant can paint,and certainly not as good as that.I was pretty much impressed by this video and the video where the elephant is painting a self potrait. ^^,
The question is it it an emerging quality or have they always had it? .In many spiritual circles is a beleif that mans conciousness is about to'shift' and touch a new dimension. Is animal conciousness correspondingly moving a step up and this is a reflection of that?.....These videos are one of the most powerful phenomena I havreever witnessed.
how should i know that is true?
kstevens0914 9 months ago
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. - Francis Scott Bacon
zenmachinefilms 9 months ago
I don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand, maybe some people are cruel, but some cultures respect them and see them as friends. They are incredibly smart, and have always been one of my favorite animals. Maybe this elephant enjoys to paint. He's creative and seems to enjoy it, if he wants to mimic a human let him. I've had many surprising pets that did things on their own because they liked to do it so this isn't shocking to me, it's beautiful. RESPECT
DiamondDoll81 10 months ago
I wish one day elephants would talk and say how stupid and ignorant humans are. I really do
josecitoperecito 1 year ago 3
@josecitoperecito Me too, bro.
journeyman47 10 months ago
WOW!
sydneysu123 1 year ago
Whats going on in the elephant mind is astonishing
IgnoredComment 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 and this painting isn't any good beacause they are mindless, spiritless drones
dr4mus 1 year ago
@dr4mus Wow, psycho much? Get over yourself, the fact that they're so intelligent and can create art is astonishing. Don't hate the world so much, it's a beautiful, amazing place. Don't belittle everything just because your god apparently tells you to do so. Enjoy life, don't tear it apart. (And apparently, your delusion doesn't allow you to appreciate beauty in nature, which is a shame.)
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tysirrah 1 year ago
@dr4mus You are a retard. And if you really are that ignorant then you are the mindless one.
Epyksen 1 year ago
@dr4mus What a fucking idiot. So you know what's going on in God's mind, eh? You make me tired, you religious hippocrit.
journeyman47 10 months ago
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
I always believed humans weren't the smartest animal on earth and here is proof. I noticed she is kinda shaky having hands would help a lot, still better than some people though!!!
madbackyardscientist 2 years ago
You could say that they train elephants like one would train a family dog.
LOLCaatz 2 years ago
@LOLCaatz Really? So you train your dog by beating him with a bullhook? I feel sorry for your dog, man.
journeyman47 10 months ago
@journeyman47 I feel sorry for your brain defect
LOLCaatz 10 months ago
Guys, quit arguing over this. Stop regurgitating the results of erroneous Google searches, and bear in mind that elephants are extremely intelligent and can paint by themselves, given a paintbrush, paints and canvas. Elephants born in captivity don't suffer from abuse, and are positively rewarded most of the time, in developed countries with laws regarding animal cruelty.
However, elephants shouldn't be hunted for their tusks because they are basically like us, as proven by the above video.
LOLCaatz 2 years ago 2
The only difference is their shape, and their retracted technological level. They have problem solving abilities, feelings and are altruistic (i.e. they care for other animals, like elephants and humans).
LOLCaatz 2 years ago
@LOLCaatz Proven? Uh, no. They're trained to do this. Granted, I'm still impressed by the act, but that elephant is displaying dexterity & obedience, not creativity.
punchingjudy 1 year ago
@LOLCaatz Keep telling yourself that: that these vids are taking place "in developed countries (snicker!) with laws regarding animal cruelty (ha ha!) and maybe you'll actually believe it yourself.
Look, I've BEEN there, man. Don't try to sell snow to your grandpaw. I know what those countries are really like, and they don't give a shit about anything but themselves. Period. THE ELEPHANTS are BEATEN! Why is that so hard to accept??
journeyman47 10 months ago
@journeyman47 points of view change dramatically during a year.
well if you teach them to paint (pick up a paintbrush and put it on a canvas) they will paint.
bear in mind that some of these elephants are beaten, and some of them are not.
LOLCaatz 10 months ago
000snow000: If Elephants did this of their own free will in the wild, fair enough, but they dont! It's been forced to do this for humans "pleasure". Bad....REAL bad.....
mitchly 2 years ago
@mitchly Well how could they do it in the wild? It's not like paint, brushes & canvases grow on trees.
Boolglunk 1 year ago
@Boolglunk . What I meant was, if there were evidence of Elephants "painting" or drawing with twigs or sticks in the soil etc in the wild, fair enough but, to my knowledge at least, there isn't, so...the poor things been trained, or forced, to do this. Either way, I'd still rather see it roaming about in the wild with it's family. I know I'm odd to want that, but that's just me I'm afraid.
mitchly 1 year ago
@mitchly Good point. They could be more focused on survival though. And who knows, maybe it has happened & nobody has seen it.
Boolglunk 1 year ago
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
source?
iLikeDragon 2 years ago
@PrincessJuJuBear,- honestly, that was my first thought too. Absolutely horrific, people suck.......I Love My Dog!!!!!!
DrummingLawyer 1 year ago
Lets get our easels out and start to paint.
2000noor1 2 years ago
JLNYC; My thoughts exactly!!!!!!!!!!! I wish everyone thought like that.
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photoshopped!
phalluman 2 years ago
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that painting sucked
jmpopa 2 years ago
amazing the beauty of God creatures
J3SS369 2 years ago 2
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Would be nice to see this elephant with, oh say, a herd of elephants. Maybe knocking over a few trees, having lunch, then maybe moseying down to a river to roll around in the water, cool themselves off. Painting? No.
JLNYC 2 years ago
Point?
ChadS14 2 years ago
I think it's pretty obvious.
JLNYC 2 years ago
i don't understand why people thumbs downed you. what you said is right.
cluckcluckX3 2 years ago
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what the fuck. thats one big man suit.
stuarttravis88 3 years ago
(scoff) My kid could do that.
polymath7 3 years ago
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Iknowthedealer 2 years ago
this isnt fake its real ive seen it live
disman88 3 years ago 3
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fake
OKParanoidAndroid 3 years ago
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for all you know, someone painted the picture then the elephant painted a dot
golfguy8899 3 years ago
nah man just click on other videos simular to this one there is one that shows the elephant paint an entire picture from strat to finish, the elephant really did paint this picture
gtoutofthawrld 3 years ago 4
what's with the controversy? this is about the brilliant mind of an elephant. for an elephant to even listen to the trainer and paint, it's pretty amazing. get over it. an elephant paints, that itself is great. shut up with ohhh- it gets abused- crap. it might, poor thing but u never know.
bledarhater23 3 years ago
bledar: "You never know" is the attitude that contributes to continued abuse. Actually, I DO know. I've spoken personally with Lek Chailert (google her) while volunteering at her elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai. Of course elephants are brilliant. That's exactly why they should NOT be dragged from their mothers and family and forced to paint for clueless tourists. One of her baby elephants was taken from the wonderful park by the owner to be trained for this crap. And THAT's what this is about.
BanWolfHunting 3 years ago
they were actually rescued elephants, so they get better treated here than most places, and they sell the painting for 1000's of £/$, which goes towards funding them.
Ch3rmy 3 years ago 2
Someone should put some talking lips on the elephant and start a new "Joy of Painting" show. Let the elephant give painting tips. Surely people would think they could paint if they are taught by an elephant that could. lol
joshig1983 3 years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA you just have to give the elephants an AFRO! or an elephant-fro
GnomoLD 3 years ago
There are many reasons why this is wrong and shouldn't be supported. The main reason is because Asian elephant babies are being torn from their mothers and broken to be docile enough to make the silly paintings. The "breaking" ritual (phaajaan) is a horrible week-long session of torture that's so bad many elephants don't even survive. Not to mention the cruelty of separating babies from mothers and their aunties.
Lek Chailert of the Elephant Sanctuary asks you not to support this abuse. Thanks.
journeyman47 3 years ago
Actually this is done at a park for rescue elephants. This particular elephant is retired from the timber industry where she formerly hauled logs, and is one of approximately 3000 domesticated elephants living in thailand.
particletheory 3 years ago 2
Particletheory: Yeah? What's the name of this "park that rescues elephants?" Any sanctuary worth its salt does not make money by making its animals do tricks for tourists. The Elephant Nature Park (google it) is one of the very, very few REAL sanctuaries in Thailand; they let their elephants do what they want, and give them only love and safety, not easels and paintbrushes. You seem to know a bit about Thai elephants; keep researching them and dig into the real truth behind the scenes.
BanWolfHunting 3 years ago 2
You don't know what you're talking about. The organization he speaks of has raised tens of thousands that have been used for elephant rescue and protection.
XinBiDe 3 years ago 8
You went to a place that makes money off tourists, and they told you the money you gave them went to "rescue and protection".
I went to the Elephant Nature Park sanctuary, which makes NO money off tourists, and they told us about the cruelty behind the scenes at places like this.
Who ya gonna believe? It''s all about money, trust me.
BanWolfHunting 3 years ago
a man pushing a paintbrush on a fully grown elephant has no chance is that elephant doesnt feel like it. I don't see any panic or distress in these animals. Think a little before you jump to conclusions
000snow000 2 years ago 2
@000snow000 Sigh! Trust, me, Snow, I ain't "jumping to conclusions". I have EXTENSIVELY researched this, AND been there IN PERSON and spoke to the top elephant people in the country. Of course you don't see any "panic" in the elephants. You see only what they want you to see. You don't see the babies dragged from their mothers (who fight to keep them),or tortured into submission until they are broken to be trained, or the endless boring hours of training to paint. It's not right, man.
BanWolfHunting 1 year ago
This must be like a school that teaches elephants to draw because in the background of "ORIGINAL elephant painting" then you can see this painting being carried off. Kudos, to the teachers.
JRV95 3 years ago
This is a pretty useful video because it shows the trainer is not gripping the elephant by the tusks
georgezimmer 3 years ago
... doesn't this show the intelligence of an elephant? Also, how could you possibly go about abusing an elephant to paint? This isn't exactly standing up on two feet, also its probably safer where its at currently than the wild. If you haven't noticed the wilderness is the unsafest spot for an animal at the moment.
Zarbon66 3 years ago
you are so stupid, and why is the wilderness so unsafe?? because of greedy people like you
thebeach2008 3 years ago
NO NO NO NO NO!!!! It doesnt show the elephant's intelligence!!! The f***ing mahout standing next to the elephant is telling it where to put the paint for crying out loud!! The abuse is non-stop! From beating the shit out of the elephant with knives and hooks to pick up the paintbrush through to the end of the day where it's kept away from it's mother to paint more pictures - to supply idiots who think this is 'charming'. No the 'wilderness' is not safe - people need to put their f***ing energy
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago 3
into trying to set up protected conservation areas for wild elephants INSTEAD of encouraging more elephants to be caught from the wild to be put in shows and entertain TOTAL GOONS.
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago 3
@SavetheAsianElephant Yes! I hope everyone listens to you. Please continue to spread the word, and thank you!
BanWolfHunting 1 year ago
@Zarbon66 Of course "the wild" isn't safe, as long as there are idiots with guns and trucks going around kidnapping wild elephants, or asshole poachers murdering them.
But it doesn't mean it's ok to force them to perform stupid tricks for clueless tourists. Two wrongs don't make a right.
If this "camp" really claims to help elephants, they should just let them BE ELEPHANTS, not painters or football players or whatever. There is one such sanctuary like that: the Elephant Nature Park.
BanWolfHunting 1 year ago
if only you got the whole thing but it was still cool
gymnasticslover10 3 years ago
is this animal expressing itself or was it taught to move the brush that way?
Hoopscream 3 years ago
Looks like it was taught how to paint, but who says an elephant doesn't have an imagination :-)
Zarbon66 3 years ago 3
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This poor animal is obviously abused, we do not see elephants in their natural habitat doing paintings on canvas. They have been beaten by bullhooks and forced to do this for stupid tourists who BUY the paintings. It is very sad, b/c the elephant is intelligent enough to be forced to learn the dumb trick, but also smart enough to know he/she should be somewhere better.
mgt12041976 3 years ago
It shocks me how people can accused the elephant conservation camps of abuse without any evidence. By posting up baseless accusations, you are undermining the very people that are actually doing something to help the elephants. Just googling would reveal the terrible situation that the elephants are in and how the people at the conservation camps are trying to save the elephants. You should be ashamed of yourself for thinking that your comment is "helping".
MisiaFine 3 years ago 4
ummm actuallyy i worked in this conservation center this summer and it is anything but abuse soo unless you have been to thailand and worked with these people and elephants in this center i would stop talking because you clearly do not know what your talking about. these elephants are mostly ex-logging elephants because logging was outlawed in thailand and the elephants had no where to go. you dont know what you talking about so dont make a rude comment
smilly552 3 years ago
Actually I volunteered with elephants with this summer in Thailand with Lek Chailert, I visited the ECC too. I watched an elephant show with elephant painting and saw that they also gave out elephant rides. As a holder of a Bsc hons where I studied conservation I can, quite informedly say, that the ECC is a wank excuse for a conservation centre. To imply you are a conservation centre would mean you were educating the public to the importance of conserving habitat and the elephant species..
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago 2
within it - not putting on a bloody show for tourists that is slowly but surely being realised as the bane of the Asian elephant. I don't care if this centre is all super duper and has rescued its elephants from logging (which by the way people elephants are better suited to and designed for than trekking) the centre is encouraging a trade where ELSEWHERE elephants are being trained extremely abusively to keep up with the demand from naive tourists...
SavetheAsianElephant 3 years ago 2
AsianElephant: Thanks for stating the truth about what goes on behind the scenes at these places. Unfortunately it seems that some people even commenting right after you didn't even bother to read what you said, or ignored it, because they still seem clueless about it. Hey, at least you tried, and very well, I might add. Keep on trying!
BanWolfHunting 3 years ago
OMG,stop talking shit and just ASSUMING things just because you heard about it happening somehwere else!!!
The elephants here get treated amazingly and are NOT beaten or have anything bad/cruel done to them to make them do this!!
The reason they dont do it in the wild is cause they dont have hands to make a fucking canvas/paint brush with you retarded scare mongerer........your one of these people that jump on the bandwagon and talk as if you know whats happening when you dont.....Learn more.
Jeebus84 3 years ago 3
elephants CAN paint cause they are intelligent!!!!=]
USB1968 2 years ago 14
pretty much all elephants do this..yes not as good as that but they all can. some just get helped. this is NOT cruelty.
jiggypopsicle 3 years ago
you responded by saying the elephants were not abused. I am so sorry, I lived in thailand for years, and currently and also BECAUSE OF YOUR CRUEL VIDEO, poor Thais (its a desperately poor country, check your facts) are capturing baby elephants in order to train them for MONEY....(and its not nice training, you go watch for yourself, not at that glorious little tourist trap place either, go where you have to speak thai to survive) .. this isn't natural for any elephant.
wamsies 3 years ago
You don't know what you are talking about and you are a fake. By posting up baseless accusations, you are undermining the very people that are actually doing something to help the elephants. Just googling would reveal the terrible situation that the elephants are in and how the people at the conservation camps are trying to save the elephants. You should be ashamed of yourself for thinking that your comment is "helping".
MisiaFine 3 years ago
these pictures make me soo sat at humanities ability to be manipulated. it seems like people will just believe what they want to believe and somehow unconsciously ignore all of the glaring inaccuracies of their sentiments. obviously this elephant is not really drawing. it was trained to move its tusk in certain patterns when its trainer tugs it in a certain way. they could do this with any animal that has a limb. at least this helps me understand why so many people still go to church haha
doorsof 3 years ago
Get real... This is an intelligent animal! I loved it!
taterpony 3 years ago
You don't even know a "trunk" from a "tusk". Get a life.
Qdammit 3 years ago
this is a sanctuary, those paintings are sold to raise money for it.. i really dont think they're abused
helorm341 3 years ago
It is true that these extremely intelligent animals already have the intellectual capacity to create these masterpieces from their personal experiences, but most often when these elephants are painting, it is easy to see that they are taught what to paint. I guarantee that if an elephant were completely free to express itself, it wouldn't be painting pre-fabricated images of flowers or itself, let alone with the appropriate corresponding colors.
veggiewars 3 years ago 3
@ginjet27: You are cracked!! This so isn't true. At least not for these particular elephants. They were rescued from abusive situations and brought here. No force is used in their training here. Yes, some elephants ARE abused, but these no longer are.
2hotinaz 3 years ago
lol, and you know this how?
helorm341 3 years ago
What???? That elephant was painting flowers!! For reals!!
missyveekay 3 years ago
an old soul....beautiful creature, and to think some kill these animals whose intelligence is far superior to the ones that hurt them...
Jacquetee 3 years ago
Yeah well on Animal Planet Tv last night they showed these guys painting and some paaintings domne by elephants and there was one that was dome by a elephant that went mad and killed a person, and it was put down! Deal with that !
allexx123 3 years ago
Aww It's So Cute!
YoungLilPrinc3ssz18 3 years ago
that's amazing & wonderful =)
victimadelavida 3 years ago
OMG i mean its an elephant!!!
LuvIsLikeOxygen123 3 years ago
Elephants are amazingly intelligent. But did you know that they are beaten and poked with sharp sticks to train them? It's true. While they're training, they 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. Personally I'd rather see them behaving naturally, not doing silly tricks.
journeyman47 3 years ago 13
The treatment you decribe was done to SOME trained elephants and it is disgraceful. But you imply that it was used in every single case of elephant training, and this is not so. More humane methods can also be used - encouragement rather than punishment. I like seeing them in natural environemnt but I also like to see them enjoy themselves as I think this one is.
rossmcl177 3 years ago
Every single working elephant you see in Thailand has gone through the "crushing" phajaan ritual, a terrible week-long ordeal of beating, starvation and torture that's so harsh many don't even survive. To the Thais this is the accepted and only way to control them. Then when they are trained for any new task (painting included) the same mindset occurs, and the same techniques. If there are some which are NOT beaten while training, how can you know which ones? Better to avoid them all to be sure.
journeyman47 3 years ago 2
Exactly!How do we know who is torturing these amazing creatures and who is not?Yeah,what these elephants are painting is unbelievable,but how did they get to that point?While I was watching I was hoping that who ever taught them these human skills were patient and treat the elephants well. It's incredible what we humans do for money and fun.I wish the human race will get more considerate with each other and especially with indefense creatures.Supporting events like this one is supporting cruelty
scarpincha 3 years ago 3
Exactly. Thanks, and spread the word!
journeyman47 3 years ago
sources , please!!
sebastian2508 3 years ago
Go to the website of the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand (we are not allowed to post websites here) and read all about it; and look up "Phajaan" on the web. Some sources are difficult to find, especially about what goes on in training the elephants to paint; they're as secretive as U.S. factory farms because they know no westerner would go if they knew the truth. I had to go to Thailand and talk to people firsthand who are active in elephant rescue & rehab. Trust me, they're accurate.
journeyman47 3 years ago
@journeyman47 actually, believe it or not, elephants DO do this in the wild when they are by themselves. They just are "abstract" marks and patterns. If you look up Ruby, the first elephant to do this, she did this all on her own with out any training what to ever. I'm not saying it's ok to torture elephants, I'm just saying that elephants can already do "paintings"
tysirrah 1 year ago
@journeyman47 Thank you for pointing that out. Even though they are incredibly intelligent animals, chances are these elephants have gone through torture to do this. Did you visit Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai Thialand, by chance? That's where I saw undercover footage of a baby being trained for painting. It was one of the most horrific things to watch...unless i saw real-life training when I was in Surin. You never forget the sights and sounds of an ele in training with a bullhook :(
littlefurballs 1 year ago
@littlefurballs Sorry it took so long for me to reply; I don't usually use that email account. Yes, I did in fact volunteer for a week at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, the only TRUE elephant sanctuary in Thailand, despite what the others claim. I highly recommend a visit for a day or a week to anyone going to Thailand-- MUCH better than some stupid "camp" where elephants are forced to perform idiotic tricks and haul fat tourists' butts around on their backs.
BanWolfHunting 1 year ago
@BanWolfHunting @BanWolfHunting No worries and thanks for the response. I concur with your comments on ENP, although there is also Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary too. If anyone is interested in the Elephant Nature Park, visit their page on google (I can't post an url in the comments). DON'T support ele trekking, painting, circuses, or street begging.
littlefurballs 1 year ago
@littlefurballs I hadn't heard about Boon Lott's sanctuary. Is it new? I'll have to google it. Did you visit it?
Oh, and if you wanna leave a URI, do it like this: elephant nature park dot com.
BanWolfHunting 1 year ago
@BanWolfHunting thanks for the tip! I haven't been to Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary yet, but a lot of my friends who I met through Elephant Nature Park visited the sanctuary after our time at ENP and they loved it.Just like ENP but smaller. So, I'll be going there in March 2011. There's also a project I'm working with in Surin: surinprojectdotorg. It's by the same foundation that supports ENP. It's in its infancy stage, but so rewarding. If you go back, I highly recmd supporting it.
littlefurballs 1 year ago
@BanWolfHunting Also, I've never been here, but I think PoD's Wildlife Center is a reputable sanctuary, as well. Google "Volunteer At A wildlife Rescue Centre in Thailand" and you'll come to PoD's site. I had corresponded with the admin there last year and it seems legit. They put the potential volunteers through a similar screening process as other sanctuaries i've applied to.
Thanks for your support of animals!
littlefurballs 1 year ago
this elephants paints better than me i think
Estherng123 3 years ago 2
fucker
rolandbuntea 3 years ago
I can't see how he could be guiding it, his arm is steady behind the canvas. I'm not saying an elephant can easily paint a wonderful picture of a humans perception of a flowers, but he definitely does have at least some bit of talent.
jiggereater 3 years ago 2
Check out 'Elephant Painting' from ExoticWorldGifts on here- it shows from the start to the finish, and he human just hands the elephant a paintbrush and steps back. She paints a whole picture by herself. (At least it looks like a she from here)
ninaamaya 3 years ago
the elephant is not amazing because its probably been doing the same damned painting for decades its nothing but a cheap trick like teaching a dog to roll over WOOW big deal.
wurth987456 3 years ago
so youre saying if you had tought your dog to paint a wonderful picture beyond the capacity of some humans you wouldn't think it was a big deal? rolling over is something a dog does naturally, painting is a human feat and teaching an entirely different species to do so is amazing
jiggereater 3 years ago
Obviously the elephant was trained to paint, but it's still pretty impressive. The trainer doesn't seem to have to guide the elephant that much (as opposed to other insane cruel animal tricks) but I think he's there just to hold the canvas in place (it would most likely move around too much, even if it was posted on a tree. You would most likely need to reinforce it plenty).
Illyum 3 years ago
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Birds can't make nests, nor can beavers build dams. Animals are dumb, and if it isn't on television it must be untrue.
Illyum 3 years ago
you kidding right?
ibumo 3 years ago
YES. lol
Illyum 3 years ago
You can tell Elephants enjoy painting. notice how they wag their tails on some of the videos on you tube. Amazing!
viacazo 3 years ago
@viacazo Umm, sorry, but an elephant "wagging" his tail does NOT mean he's happy, like it would in a dog. If a cat wags her tail does it mean the same thing as a dog? Of course not! It's the same with elephants.
They naturally wave their tails constantly to keep flies away, like horses and cows do.
I hope you've learned a bit more about other animals in the past two years.
BanWolfHunting 1 year ago
wow...
FrankRabbit600 3 years ago
i dont know if its cruel... I'd have to see how they treat and train the elephants... thats what i'm REALLLLY curious about. They countries arent known for their humane treatment of animals... thats my only concern
bellej3 3 years ago 2
"humane treatment of animals"??? they are animals!!! And seems like they got a job... (ñ_ñ)
akcellredkel 3 years ago
Wow, this is truly a stupid post. Yeah, we all know that all pet owners in Thailand are evil. Just like all pet owners in America are saints. Stop stereotyping, there are plenty of elephants in Thailand that are thought of as part of the family, and not just a pet. Could this elephant be treated badly? Sure, just about as much as your neighbor's dog may get beat every night.
samuricex 3 years ago
nice comment
mariannela 3 years ago
There are elephants In Thailand that I went to see last year on a school trip, one elephant was named Lao Ztu or something and it had been trained to hold a paint brush by it's keeper and then the man would hold it's trunk and trace pictures on the canvas. The elephant memerized most of these pictures and now it does them on it's on, and even adds details that weren't there before. This is the elephant that paints it's self portrait. I saw him paint it on it's own, with no verbal help or touch.
lightshadow22 3 years ago
people can be so cruel! poor little elephant!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ghost808Rider 3 years ago
How are they harming the elephant? Elephants are inteligent, more inteligent than us when it comes to certain aspects, and they deffinetely know what there doing and this elephant is no exception. It knows it's doing something different and it most likely enjoys doing it because it's something NEW and CREATIVE, and animals like new and creative things too btw. If this elephant didn't want to paint then it probably wouldn't paint. And if it was forced into painting, it probably wouldn't paint...
lightshadow22 3 years ago
...such precise pictures, it would probably just dump the paint on the canvas and be done with it (which some do, because they are Forced into doing it, but this elephant is not) There are always going to be people saying "Thats animal Cruelty" when theres no aspect of cruelty involved. Get your information right before you accuse a creative and profound art of being cruel.
lightshadow22 3 years ago
ho fabuloso que increible ...aplausos
darilabella 3 years ago
I am a personal trainner for my own African Grey Parrot(Video can be seen on my channel)
It is just because the animal cannot talk, it doesn't mean that they are not capable of learning and proforming....You cannot expect an animal to everything that a human can do like refilling the paint brush...A trainer has to understand the animal first...This is just a unique painting......
amymint5 3 years ago
i think the man is refilling the paint brush
lilmisschaos26 3 years ago
and to think the elephant wants to be a sculptor....
diamond2tron 3 years ago
XDradio is being a bit harsh but is correct. If you look close you will see there are 2 people there. One is stitting down holding the paper and then there is a person on the other side behind the elephant. You can see them move towards the end of the clip. They are guiding the elephants trunk by the tusk. The elephant is painting with help from a person. A elephant can paint alone but it is much less controled then this.
amdonno 3 years ago
Looks like someone (xDradio) needs to read "When Elephants Weep" to find out the true extent and depth of animal feeling.
shortminute 3 years ago
No, ding-dong, the person's hand is not on the trunk. If you had any powers of observation you would see that one hand is supporting the canvass, and the other is dangling at the thigh. The only illusion here is your own intellectual superiority to the rest of us stupid-heads who enjoy a simple but remarkable amusement, knowingly and with integrity.
megancreel 3 years ago 3
I agree with you megancreel
Davaron2012 3 years ago
That is one talented elephant! I hear that they are very smart, you know! :-)
dunks15slam 3 years ago 2
nah, you must have mistaken it for....YOUR FACE! OH! WHAT NOW PUNK?
dunks15slam 3 years ago
yeah right. this is obviously just a person in an elephant suit!
sprittel 3 years ago
well.. Its not a person :) Its an elephant painting, they are making some studs about it, check it in internet.
PortugueseR3dMoon 3 years ago
DIS IS HOW U DRAW ROSES-
From an elephant.
DinosaurMuffin 3 years ago
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if you ask, I say thats thah most stupidest elephant I eva did see!
xcmet 3 years ago
This is tripping me the FUCK out.... HOLY FUCKIN SHIT. Oh my god, it's amazing..
anesthesiac 3 years ago 4
whats more amazing is elephants can pick up single grain of rice with their trunk, detect water in the desert when they are thirsty and have amazing memory. They are amazing animal
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j2molino 3 years ago
If buying a picture could save an elephants life, I'd buy it in a minute. How many are left in Thailand? How many hurt from injury? How little does it take to save a species as wonderful as these amazing animals? Thank you for posting this wonderful video.
judyatpalmetto 3 years ago 2
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Why do they only show the elephant finishing the art work. Scammed people, scammed!!! You have to be there to really see an elephant do it to know if it is for real. phony baloney's
blujon 3 years ago
dumbass. check out the other videos that show it all from the start. I'm sure all those people standing there with this particular elephant were in on the scam... It is a credit to the training and the elephant's intelligence. You, on the other hand...
ugadawgs1990 3 years ago 6
Why do they seem to paint flowers so much?
Beckyshort 3 years ago
maybe think they're as pretty as we think
Adventurestud 3 years ago 2
Think about what they see everyday, what an elephant focuses on. I know that I'd want to paint flowers too if my world revolved mostly around nature and eating plants. Perhaps it's a fascination with color, or maybe a primitive concept of beauty. Who can say?
xenosoldier 3 years ago 3
elephants are ma favorite animal all of a sudden :)
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I am amazed at how no one realizes what tourture this animals have been put through to learn this action. It is not normal for an elephant to perfom like this, and although they are very intelligent the people that are with them are constantly pulling on their ears to remind them to perform or else. I am outraged, i know its cute and pretty but i just think what they have gone through to please people.
hernicla1 3 years ago
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I can draw better!
giuseppeow 3 years ago
u aren't an elephant or other animal are u? i think not=]
cyphergirl01 3 years ago
shut the hell up! at least the eliphant looks better than u
mefriendsrocsox 3 years ago
Dude. . It's an ELEPHANT.
YumYumYaoi 3 years ago 3
yes but do you have a trunk you can paint with, along with cute big ears and intelligence and caring? I think not.
Satellitegirl41 3 years ago
That's like saying you are stronger than kindergartener, there Picasso.
xenosoldier 3 years ago
colorful
bistander 3 years ago
Wow I never thought elephant can paint,and certainly not as good as that.I was pretty much impressed by this video and the video where the elephant is painting a self potrait. ^^,
WtfItzHuy 3 years ago
these elephants are rescued from abusive treatment in Burma
wailukshilouise 3 years ago
One thing is certain : the elephants have more intelligence than some of the people commenting on this page....
rehanajana 3 years ago 17
Rehana I so totally agree. Your comment made me laugh out loud. I love the video where the elephant paints himself, simply unreal!
BlackMidalia 3 years ago
The question is it it an emerging quality or have they always had it? .In many spiritual circles is a beleif that mans conciousness is about to'shift' and touch a new dimension. Is animal conciousness correspondingly moving a step up and this is a reflection of that?.....These videos are one of the most powerful phenomena I havreever witnessed.
rehanajana 3 years ago
the elephant's been trained to raise awareness about elephants in the world. you can buy the paintings to help save the elephants in thailand!
beccalg16 3 years ago 3
is there a website or something
oswaldthedrummer 3 years ago
lmfao. i agree
darkshady951 3 years ago
lmfao i love that comment absolutely right :P
CrazySnoball 3 years ago
elephants seem to love flowers. who knew?
BlackMagz 3 years ago
haha.. i knw! they really do! haha
baybegurl4ever 3 years ago
I hope my son can paint like this when he is 4, like the elephant. He's only two and a half now. Here he is with his first artshow:
watch?v=KfMkfqWHSzs
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you tube people is full of angerrrrrrrrrrrr
charming school or frickin anger management
u can say shit cuz every fuckin body jumps
u can try xanax
meandpaparoach 3 years ago