is this elephant for real???

[djnemo65]

Well typing painting elephant into google yields our answer.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Elephant Painting

The video is real but the elephant has been trained to reproduce this specific image. He doesn't understand what he's drawing and can't draw other things. This is evidence of superior training more than intelligence .

Well I agree with you Jsarno that certain animals our more intelligent than we realize, dolphins for example, I think the ability to create and appreciate art is as uniquely human as it gets.

[SeanTaylor21]

My dad work's for the company that owns Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey, and we get free tickets, and in the beginning of each show they get an elephant to paint, or draw something, they aren't that bad. So I wouldn't doubt it if it were real.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by SeanTaylor21

My dad work's for the company that owns Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey, and we get free tickets, and in the beginning of each show they get an elephant to paint, or draw something, they aren't that bad. So I wouldn't doubt it if it were real.

I'll have to admitt that when I was younger we would go to the circus RB & BB. I have sense decide that in todays world this is an out dated and cruel to the animals. If they would remove the animals and just do the tricks and stuff I love to take my daughter. I hunt and fish so I'm not one of those PETA types but I do back them in this situation.

[SeanTaylor21]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I'll have to admitt that when I was younger we would go to the circus RB & BB. I have sense decide that in todays world this is an out dated and cruel to the animals. If they would remove the animals and just do the tricks and stuff I love to take my daughter. I hunt and fish so I'm not one of those PETA types but I do back them in this situation.

You know what happens to the elephants that retire? They don't kill them, they put them on this like 100-150 acre farm kinda place int Florida, and take care of them until they pass away.

[Riggo44]

Originally Posted by SeanTaylor21

You know what happens to the elephants that retire? They don't kill them, they put them on this like 100-150 acre farm kinda place int Florida, and take care of them until they pass away.

Yea right sure they do........ That's just what your Dad told you so you would fall asleep as a kid.


Nineteen elephants—three of them babies—have died at the hands of Ringling Bros. over the last decade alone.


Watch this and you get the real story. PETA TV:Circus Elephants
Circuses.com: Ringling Employees Tell of Bloody Beatings, Routine Abuse

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by SeanTaylor21

You know what happens to the elephants that retire? They don't kill them, they put them on this like 100-150 acre farm kinda place int Florida, and take care of them until they pass away.

I'm sure its like one of those golf resorts that our grand parents move to in FL. when they retire. Sorry you can defend them all you want but its just not right the way they are treated and the conditions they have to live.