Thia land-there are elephants that do art and i want the website so i can check it out.incredible stuff?

Answer 1

There are actually several countries that sponsor elephant art. Here's a site, and examples of some of the pictures the elephants paint:
http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/default.php

Answer 2

It is a neat trick, but it is not art!

From the website:

The elephants are unobstructed in this process and the paintings that you see are indeed void of any human mark. The elephants are literally guided with a series of verbal commands and hand gestures, which relate to choice of color and location of each mark.

The trunk of an elephant is remarkable. They have approximately 40,000 independent muscles and they have many nerve endings on the tip, so they have both excellent motor control and sensitivity (This helps them survive) It is, therefore, a neat trick to train an elephant to do this, but the elephant is not being an artist
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The problem is that the artistic part of painting is the choice of color an location of each mark. The real artist is the animal trainer who is choosing the choice of color and location of each mark, and the marketing guy that figured out that tourists would pay $500 dollars each for this.

PS: I am not bashing Elephants; they are amazing animals: highly intelligent, resourceful, and they regularly perform many amazing feats when in their natural habitat. Painting, however is not one of them.

Answer 3

Elephant art??...This truly sounds incredible,,,I too would like to find a website on this subject. Nearest thing to it that I can imagine is an elephant stomping his driver into a bloody pulp.
Would that be elephant finger-painting?..:)

Answer 4

http://www.elephantart.us/
http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/default.php
http://www.cmzoo.org/elephantart.html
http://www.baliadventuretours.com/BATElephant_Art_Gallery.htm
http://www.elephantartgallery.com/

Pretty neat!