Looks pretty intelligent to me!

*G_Man* · 04-26-2008, 05:07 PM

YouTube - Elephant Painting

**Noodles** · 04-26-2008, 08:07 PM

That is amazing. They showed this on a show on Animal Planet also.

**Dragoness_Cutie** · 04-27-2008, 07:36 AM

They get trained/tortured to do that. What you don't see is the elephant's trainer off just behind his head off camera pulling and otherwise hurting the elephant's ear every time it does something wrong.

Mind you, this is just what I've heard in comments on other elephant painting videos... I've yet to see a news article about it.

*G_Man* · 04-27-2008, 09:02 AM

Quoting: Dragoness_Cutie

They get trained/tortured to do that. What you don't see is the elephant's trainer off just behind his head off camera pulling and otherwise hurting the elephant's ear every time it does something wrong.

Mind you, this is just what I've heard in comments on other elephant painting videos... I've yet to see a news article about it.

That sucks if it is true.

Still, a testament to the animals intelligence even if it is coerced into the behavior.