"Mark Thorson" > wrote

> Dave Bell wrote:
>>
>> merryb wrote:
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LHoyB81LnE
>>
>> Yeah, I've been showing that one around!
>>
>> Even if the elephant's been laboriously trained to produce that
>> particular painting, it's amazing.
>>
>> Even if he's responding to subtle trainer clues - hand
>> gestures, touches, etc. - it's *still* amazing!
>
> I'm not convinced this is for real. The elephant
> clearly has been taught to hold a brush, but I
> think that is being spliced between other scenes
> in which a person with a long glove that looks
> like an elephant's trunk is doing the "fine"
> painting.

I thought so, too. All of a sudden this disembodied thing
starts painting flowers. It looks fake, at least what I saw
on television.

nancy