Video review: An Elephant Paints An Amazing Self ...
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- Sitarih rated 11 hours ago
- I liked the part from 1:55 best. "Oh my god" "Oh my gosh" "Oh my god". Awesome.
theAnarchist rated 3 days ago- damn i can't even do that!
- crazyaboutmags rated 5 days ago
- wow unbelievable
- Marty-Party rated 9 days ago
- Hmm.. I too think they probably trained the elephants to trace templates until they got the hang of it. Don't get me wrong, elephants are definitely intelligent, but I don't think they can paint depth.. hmm..
- pyrophage rated 12 days ago
- @DC84 - I agree. I think that this is a magnificent solution to several problems: elephant upkeep must be terribly expensive, so selling the pics is a great way to maintain them. Plus, it gives the elephants something to do. So in that regard, this is a great idea - but I seriously doubt that it is truly "art" in the traditional sense of innovation and creativity. It's more like Bob Ross (which has its place! I'm not knocking the Bobinator) It doesn't even look like the elephant is given a palette choice - she's just handed a pre-loaded brush! I imagine that true elephant art would be more like the Lucerne cave paintings: using twisted perspective so that each element would be seen from it's most "prototypical" view, using colors selected by the elephant itself. Heh - I could see how all of this will eventually blow up in the zookeepers' faces, tho. Eventually, some genuinely creative elephant visionary is going to attempt self-choreographed, Serrano-esque performance art. In front of small, impressionable children.
- DC84 rated 12 days ago
- I'm guessing they trained the elephant to trace a template many times until it got the hang of it. To think that an elephant can master drawing an illusion of depth (the legs), while it took the ancient Egyptians a number of CENTURIES to do the same. But I've read that the drawings are sold to support the well-being of the elephants.
- jessikaerin rated 13 days ago
- Animals never cease to show us up!
- mrjonesluckiest rated 14 days ago
- holy shit. this is a better drawing than I could do!
- Atalarion rated 2 weeks ago
- He's great!
- boldone894 rated 3 weeks ago
- Absolutely incredible video! While, I still think the PETA freaks go WAY over the line, this only proves that some animals are way smarter and gifted than we could ever have imagined.
Even if the elephant was taught to repeat "programmed" actions from training, the elephant still demonstrates understanding of borders, limits and perspective enough to render those to paper. The use of colors should also blast those that think that all animals (except humans) see in gray or b/w. - Absolutely incredible video! While, I still think the PETA freaks go WAY over the line, this only proves that some animals are way smarter and gifted than we could ever have imagined.
