Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Elephant Paints Self Portrait

I have always like Elephants, as you can tell by their placement around our home. This is something that I thought was pretty cool.

6 comments:

Alex said...

Well Matt, that has to be one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. So much so, that I thought it must be a hoax, and to my surprise it absolutely is not. That elephant is "Hong", an eight year old female living in the Maetaman Elephant Camp in Thailand. They make quite a few paintings there, and make some money selling them.
Check out http://rpglab.net/troberg/gallery/view.php?gid=82
For more information.
Good video Matt..!

Steely Dan said...

Matt, don't know if it is me or you but your video are always "no longer available."

So that's as far as I go. (You know, if the switch doesn't turn on the light . . .time for an electrician)

TEKMO said...

I can't even imagine trying to train an elephant to do that... that was amazing. It makes the paintings the Calgary elephants do look pretty sad.

Mattie said...

Steely, that is weird. It is definitely still there. I just watched it again. oh well, maybe it is your computer.

Alex said...

Maybe cause Calgary Zoo doesn't use electric shock training technique? I'm gonna try this on a fish. Imagine making a fish do a painting? That would be sweet, but it would have to be a water color.

luda said...

LOL Alex.
As for the elephant painting...we should send someone over there to disable that elephant, she's clearing moving in on our local zoo's claim to fame.