Smarter than you think

#1 - prycebear

Reply+40

(05/19/2013)[-]

I cant see him behind that sexy elephant

#2 - pappathethird

Reply+6

(05/19/2013)[-]

I think most adults could paint that. I'm pretty content I could paint that. Not that it's not awesome, still.

#4 to #2 - finding

Reply+28

(05/19/2013)[-]

Are you an elephant?

#17 - snup

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(05/19/2013)[-]

I'm so sorry, I just had to...

#19 to #17 - defeats

Reply+6

(05/19/2013)[-]

You should be sorry, but that's brilliant.

#8 - anon id: d862429c

Reply0

(05/19/2013)[-]

the sad thing is the chain on its neck

#12 to #8 - cadaverbox

Reply+8

(05/19/2013)[-]

**** off hippie

#13 to #12 - killingsin

Reply+2

(05/19/2013)[-]

I wonder if he says the same about dog leashes.

#16 to #13 - muffinssnuffims

Reply0

(05/19/2013)[-]

At the same time, a chain probably hurts a lot, just bare on it's skin...

Would be nice if they at least got something not so hard on it. I really don't know anything about elephants though, maybe it's fine... idk.

#18 to #8 - bananamilkshake

Reply+3

(05/19/2013)[-]

What u sayin elefants cant have dem swaggz?

#23 to #18 - zorororonoa

Reply0

(05/19/2013)[-]

Pakaderms need deyz bling.

#7 - britz

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(05/19/2013)[-]

This is the realest thing I've ever seen.

#9 to #7 - hugfactory

Reply0

(05/19/2013)[-]

actualy iz fake u fagt

#15 - fukkendragonite

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(05/19/2013)[-]

I could never paint anything like this. I can't even art.

#14 - anon id: db2daf04

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(05/19/2013)[-]

Elephants are actually trained to do this through guidance from their trainer. They stand to one side of the elephant and they do different signals on the elephant's ear to tell them what to do. So, unfortunately the elephants don't ever paint whatever they feel like painting... But it's still amazing that they know what trainer wants and they can paint it with such precision with their trunk.

I would say it's similar to horseback riding. The trainer is kinda like the horseback rider. Even though the horse is trained and the rider is telling it what to do, I still think it's absolutely amazing to see it do things like this:

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#20 to #14 - sepheroth

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(05/19/2013)[-]

I wonder what an elephant would paint if it was given a choice

#21 to #20 - mankey

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(05/19/2013)[-]

No, elephants by nature prefer to take photographs and put them in an album so they can reminisce over old memories.

#22 to #21 - sepheroth

Reply0

(05/19/2013)[-]

It does make it easier to mourn their dead.

#25 to #22 - mankey

Reply0

(05/19/2013)[-]

Nah, unlike humans, elephants take a fairly flippant attitude to death. They believe in karmatic reincarnation, but they're not part of any sort of organised religion, it's just common knowledge amongst the elephant nation. A general idea of "what goes around comes around".

"And here's a really nice one of your uncle Mortimer. He's a celebrity you know? Has his own shelf in a museum. He came back as a bad case of syphilis for the guy who shot him. Taught him a lesson he did."

#26 to #25 - sepheroth

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(05/19/2013)[-]

See, now I know you're talking out of your ass. It's a well known fact that elephants mourn their dead. Sometimes not leaving their side, except for water, for up to three days after the loss of a comrade.

#27 to #26 - mankey

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(05/19/2013)[-]

Nah, that's just because they want first dibs on the tusks. They're interchangeable you know, but they have to wait for the coroners report before they can pilfer them. Some tusks have been handed down for generations, there's some lucky elephants walking around with woolly mammoth tusks from their ancestors.