Animal lovers, you gotta see this!
by startingover 6 Replies latest jw friends
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jstalin
Actually, that video makes me a bit sad. Elephants are often mistreated and it makes me wonder if that elephant was simply beaten into getting it right.
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momzcrazy
How sweet! Here's a picture an elephant painted:
momz
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Kinjiro
Actually I concur with jstalin... I saw a video about 14, 15 years ago of how they trained baby elephants to stand on balls etc etc... they used 6 inch spikes to induce the correct behavior.. the baby elephant would scream every time...actually sounded like a human baby... since then I have never ever been back to a circus that has any type of wild animal.. I can tolerate seeing dogs doing tricks.. maybe even horses (although they also get mistreated) but no other ...not bears not wild cats not elephants etc etc. An elephant is an extremely inteligent and spirited creature... to see them submitted to this torture just for our enjoyment should make all of us 'animal lover' look at our choices... I changed and do not support any of this, including Sea World and the rest of the so called 'animal lovers place"... I even quit going to the zoo unless it is something very much like their natural habitat (Busch Gardens type and conservation places) ..
We are not the rulers of the world.. we coexist with these woderful creatures... so if you are a true animal lover, think this over and see to what conclusion you arrive from the heart
Take a look at this and think...
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ButtLight
I dont know, I thought it was great! Just shows they are pretty smart.....sure hope they didnt get beat though, that would be sad!
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restrangled
This put a smile on my face and then made me sad at the same time. You have to wonder how they get the elephant to accomplish this. Especially the idea of 4 legs. Even a small child usually doesn't draw animals with 4 legs....just 2.
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Sad emo
Amazing!
It does look like the elephant might have been trained by mistreatment though but it has now been rescued and still paints through learned behaviour rather than being forced to do it. This was the attached info from the charity:
Can your elephant paint? Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint an amazing self portrait. You'll be amazed at how his talent unfolds.
So touched by their horrific backgrounds and loving personalities, ExoticWorldGifts.com now supports, "Starving Elephant Artisans" by selling their paintings so they can continue to have a new life in Thailand