Sorry to get all Brian Fellow here, but I suspect you will be similarly agog after you see this pachyderm’s deft brushwork (below). Okay, so apparently it’s just re-creating a specific rudimentary elephant outline that it’s been trained to mimic. Whatever! Is that so different from, like, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s (human) assistants following his detailed instructions to create an installation on their own?
Okay, yeah, maybe it is totally different. But at least the video’s not fake, like I assumed at first. And I’m mostly convinced that the YouTube commenter who speculated that "the CIA is breeding superintelligent elephants so soldiers can ride them in battle" is wrong. Probably. Don’t you think?
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I saw this video a couple days ago and was amazed! My amazement then turned into sadness because I have trouble drawing stick figures…sigh.
Ok, so Dumbo can draw. But can he bake a cheese souffle?
I think not.
Ok, so Dumbo can draw. But can he bake a cheese souffle?
I think not.
Brian Fellow would literally crap his pants if he saw that.
Lord help me, I would buy that picture.
The elephant draws better than I do! I was hoping it’d like sign the painting at the end.
My parents actually just returned from Thailand with one of these works of art. The painting of a tree is now my mother’s most prized possession and easily the highlight of her trip.
Didn’t Hannibal use Elephants in battle? Or am I thinking of the wrong guy?
yes, it was Hannibal.
The amount its trunk is shaking in trying to hit the mark perfectly makes me worry about the “training” used to get this young elephant to paint so well.
That ain’t so great. I could draw at least twice as well as that stupid elephant. Nice flower.
It’s good! rolex watch?
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