Elephant Art?!

Okay, so I heard about this on the radio the other and just had to investigate. Now, I'm out of the loop, so maybe this is old news. But regardless, I had to share. Apparently elephants can paint. Yeah, you read that right. Paint. As in a picture. So I found the youtube video and tried posting it here, but blogger is PMSing or something and won't let me upload, keeps freezing, and has forced me to re-write this post 3 times, so here's the link. http://youtube.com/watch?v=XSVXrZHl87I


That one is a sped up version .It's kind of annoying with the music, but you can watch it on mute, you don't need sound. You can watch the 8-9 minute one here. http://youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE



So I know what you're all thinking. But I looked it up and apparently it's real. Basically the elephant is trained to paint the same thing over and over. so it's not like they handed him a brush and paint, said go for it and this was the end result. Here's the explanation: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_elephant_painting.htm