ORIGINAL Elephant Painting

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Can your elephant paint? Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint a beautiful image of an elephant. You'll be amazed at how her talent unfolds as she carefully completes each stroke. Her mahout talks to her throughout the process as his gentle touch gives her confidence. She focuses on her work and seems to enjoy the approval of the audience and, of course, the sugar cane and banana treats. All of her training has been reward based. So touched by their horrific backgrounds and loving personalities, ExoticWorldGifts.com now supports, "Starving Elephant Artisans" by selling their paintings so they can continue to have a new life in Thailand. Some Thai elephant experts believe that the survival of the Asian elephant species will most likely depend on the good treatment of the elephants in well managed privately owned elephant camps. All of us would prefer that all of the elephants be free to be in the wild. For many reasons, that is not possible at this time.

Channel: Pets & Animals
Uploaded: March 7, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Author: ExoticWorldGifts

Length: 0:08:29
Rating: 4.89
Views: 3,520,497

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ExoticWorldGifts (Friday 5th of September 2008 07:33:39 PM)
Noi, the trainer for this elephant, Hong, talks to her continuously while she is painting. They have a wonderful relationship as they collaborate in creating this art. Hong has never been mistreated. Any type of mistreatment or coercion is counterproductive to the fine motor control needed to produce this art.
az1az1 (Friday 5th of September 2008 09:01:46 AM)
It appears that the trainer standing next to her is guiding her trunk through touch. It's still amazing but I hope they didn't put her under a bunch of stress or threaten her with pain in order to teach her this ability. That is how they usually train elephants after all.
pkmbyte (Friday 5th of September 2008 04:01:57 AM)
maybe it was elephants that painted humans on cave walls and not humans!!!
JjGober (Friday 5th of September 2008 02:16:13 PM)
Hmmm...interesting idea...
philipnykvist (Thursday 4th of September 2008 11:50:01 PM)
This can't be true? sick shit!
Silus1008 (Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 06:57:57 PM)
this elephant is a better drawer than me
VaneWalker (Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 05:00:21 PM)
What The Shit!
GuyaneseRasTa (Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 06:32:16 PM)
well said
mairyu123 (Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 08:37:40 AM)
Thailand's elephant
frepi (Wednesday 3rd of September 2008 06:18:00 AM)
too bad the cameraman emphasises on the drawing and keep the elephant out of the camera lens. We could think it is a disguised human hand.