Elephant paints self-portrait - Jumbo takes to the easel

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Guest: juzz_mhe (yesterday)
it's really fantastic. i know it's difficult to teach or trained an animals especially doing things like humans can do. thank you so much for this video it amazed me... i know that the caretakers of this animals do their job to take care the elephants...
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flingthecow (3 days ago)
So the elephant should be grateful that he is in captivity, being forced to do tricks by humans? Because if not, he might get shot by humans? Wow, we humans are amazing.
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Guest: Elaine (17 days ago)
Trained or not this is just bloody amazing to watch,something so big using such a small brush and getting such detail is awesome.And at least the elephant is fed and looked after,maybe if it was in the wild it would be dead by now,shot by hunters.
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NIKKI (24 days ago)
This is the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long time. Shows not only can elephants enjoy making marks but can visualize themselves dancing with giant flowers! I have trouble painting with such confidence and provision, let alone with a trunk! Move over Matisse!
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fleeton (35 days ago)
Trained or not trained. Who cares! For an elephant to remember in such detail and precision the exact moves - well, that says something to me. He seems to be enjoying the crowds reaction and enjoying the whole thing in general. Free him and he'd surely be shot by an idiot with a gum. Here he has a purpose.
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Guest: Henrik (38 days ago)
I have seen elephants paint on a trip to Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. The "new" ones partly paints self expressions but the old ones are surely trained. However it is still fantastic they can do a painting at all, what other animal can be trained to do that beside a monkey and an elephant? Plus it looks like they are having fun too :-)
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Guest: Eliphants ftw (42 days ago)
now it would be better if he wrote "please help me"
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adko (42 days ago)
he maybe could, but he certainly didn't painted it with with a flower motive.
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BigHot (42 days ago)
Rubbish adko. He painted my bathroom.
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adko (43 days ago)
it's really sad. the elephant is doing just trained moves. hes not really drawing. animals don't have the ability to reproduce objects (especialy not form 3D to 2D, i'm not mentioning the abstraction of drawing just outlines)
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Guest: Tom (43 days ago)
Look at the size of his trunk! Cribbens!
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Guest: Trunky (aka Tom) (43 days ago)
We can type too.
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Guest: Dan (43 days ago)
Very well done. Would be nice if it was acutal self-expression, though.
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Guest (43 days ago)
Unbelievable!!
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Guest: guest (43 days ago)
this has to be an april fool....
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Guest (43 days ago)
I want an elephant, I want an elephant!
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Guest: Maureen Maguire (43 days ago)
Absolutely brilliant, wonderful.
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