Comments on: Elephant Artist Paints An Elephant

By: MattBille

MattBille — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:04:24 +0000

http://www.snopes.com classifies it as true, saying, I think (their text is a little imprecise here) that the elephant is filling in a drawing already outlined for it.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:32:21 +0000

Very interesting. Again, mainstream science seems to be turned upside down. If this is a hoax, I can’t figure out how it’s done. Seems legit.

By: Rapscallion

Rapscallion — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:57:43 +0000

Certainly makes you wonder what things we humans miss, don’t it?

By: DARHOP

DARHOP — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:26:03 +0000

Now that is just too KOOL!

By: sausage1

sausage1 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:51:45 +0000

Great video.

Marcel Duchamp said that something is art if the artist says it is art. Now if the elephant said ‘this is art, mate!’ that really WOULD be impressive.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:50:35 +0000

I do have to wonder about it. Elephants that paint don’t produce recognizable shapes in any literature I’ve seen on the subject. They apparently do sometimes take color cues from things visible to them. (The example I remember was one putting a splotch of red in a painting shortly after a red emergency vehicle pulled up near its pen.)

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:43:58 +0000

I don’t know if this is real.

But I do like elephants. They’re so cool!

By: sschaper

sschaper — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:40:58 +0000

I sure hope that it wasn’t the horrific training regimen stated earlier. Elephants are amazingly useful domestic animals, assuming that they can be gentled by non-tormenting means.

Even if it was trained to do that, it is remarkable. It if understands that it is painting an elephant, though would be stunning. But there are ways to research that sort of thing. Have they been done? Perhaps elephants should be researched as has been done with primates and African Gray parrots.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:04:49 +0000

CRIKEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

That is outta sight!!!

Thanks for the link, Loren!!!

By: squatch-toba

squatch-toba — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:28:32 +0000

The “feel good” video of the year!!