I have lived in Thailand 17 years and am intimately involved with elephant rescue foundations. Every elephant in Thailand, with very rare exceptions, that is trained for entertainment, riding, or labor, have been taken away from their mothers at an early age and put through a prolonged process of 'breaking' the elephant's will through traumatizing pain and fear. This is a long standing process called Phajaan (Crushing), where a mother's love is replaced by pain and fear. Once the elephant is broken and compliant, then further 'training' takes place with a hook to inflict yet more pain. When the elephants are not performing they are often chained, away from the eyes of the public. A terrible life. This video is being used to glorify this elephant's talent and to perpetuate this practice for profit. Tourists need to wake up and BOYCOTT any and all elephant shows, riding, and any venue that puts elephants in any situation other than living in their natural environment. Please practice due diligence and patronize bonafide sanctuaries, which are usually 'look but don't touch' venues, allowing elephants to be elephants in their natural habitat with companions. Elephants do not enjoy painting but are merely performing what they have been trained to do under duress and the threat of pain. They deserve to live in a proper sanctuary and never feel chains or hooks again. Let's promote the welfare of these majestic creatures. Feel free to fact check everything I've written. Look up Phajaan (Crushing). Please donate to Elephant Rescue Foundations if you're able. Don't contribute to their misery. Thank You for your consideration in becoming part of the movement to improve the lives of these gentle giants by allowing them to live with the dignity they deserve. Make the world a better place.

It's so funny that no one ever shows the mahout's other hand. What's not funny is when he slapped her trunk while he was getting another brush and that he has the very same weapon that they used to domesticate her.. THE SHARP BULLHOOK. ask him why he carries this!

What a beautiful picture 😮😯😲😱... wonderfully blessed to have you as my dear baby 😘🥰😍🤩

If only the person could show more or the mahout and what he's doing.. This a-hole is carrying a bullook!!!! Big Red Flag!!! The reason the elephant yelped is because a nail was pressed into her ear, Copy and paste these words in you search. you will learn how they are really trained .telenoche - memorias de un elefante - capítulo ii

Wow.... Amazing

THIS SHOWS THAT ANIMALS HAVE INTELLIGENCE. Fantastic! There are so many documentaries done about this and they show there are no harm nor abuses done to these beautiful intelligence creatures!

I worked at the Phoenix zoo and have a painting from Ruby the elephant I took care of her but I hide it in my closet because she is gone now

That elephant 🐘 is Bob Ross in animal form!!!! Very amazing work!!!!!!! 👩🏽‍🎤 🎨

More than beautifully 👍🌷💛💛💛🥰

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This is abuse, sadisam. STOP BRUTAL TRANING. 😭😭😭👎👎

I want to buy that elephant a projector and bob ross season one

They “train” these poor baby elephants to paint by way of a using a bull hook to inflict pain.

Please watch this kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGOxapWimdCHg7s

ABUSIVO.

Increíble

When an elephant can paint better than me... 😍

When i try to copy that kind of painting i look trash and this one Leonardo Da Vinci's pet right here

🤮🤮🤮🤮 ISSO É CRUELDADE COM OS ANIMAIS!

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Cunts

Muchos vemos asombroso el talento y destreza del elefante, y lo es, verdaderamente es magnífico, pero todos sabemos lo severo y crueles que pueden resultar los orientales en sus procesos de aprendizaje y si con las gimnastas no tienen piedad, no imagino cómo fue para el elefante aprender a pintar con tanta técnica porque si utiliza técnicas de pintura. Ojalá me equivoque. Esa bellísima esa pintura, ni a mí me saldría😊😊

THIS IS THE MOST COOLEST THING IVE EVER EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE HANDS DOWN 🐘👏🏼🎨😍

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Very intelligent elefend I broued of him

What is that tool with the spike that the owner is holding??? I hope that isn't used on the elephant...

기억과 훈련

www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/why-making-an-elephant-paint-is-cruel-not-cute

то чувство когда слон рисует лучше тебя

dont be fooled these elephants are tortured for our selfish entertainment kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJeqi6OXjaqNrKc

#whenananimalcanpaintbetterthenyou

Que ejemplo maravilloso de la importancia del cuidado y admiración hacia la naturaleza, solo puedo decir esto es increíble.

Verry good elephant

Training by means of daily beating until the skill have been learned.

For those who want to know how this magic trick is done, read on below. For those who want to believe fantasies, stop reading. OK, so this is the trick. The elephant has no idea what it's going to paint. Elephants aren't artists. The way this trick works is that the elephant is "trained" (by all accounts I've ever seen, quite brutally) to hold the paintbrush in the trunk, and then move the trunk as directed by the mahout (trainer), who pulls on the elephant's ear. Essentially, the elephant just becomes a giant living remote control arm, where the trunk is the arm, and the ear is the joystick. If a mahout directs the paintbrush this way, you'll get any painting you want (that you pay for), including written words in any human language (that you pay for). If you look around on KZbin and other video sites, you'll find plenty of evidence of this. Just key in "Elephant writes" and you'll see for yourself. Usually, that's enough to shatter the delusion and realize it's just a parlor trick. See, there's a reason why you get these miracle paintings only from elephants in tourist traps in Thailand, and the most you'll ever get out of an elephant in an honest zoo is some random paint splotches. It's because elephants DON'T actually paint pictures/words. They just steer their trunks in the direction that the mahout guides. I seriously wonder who would pay $180 for an elephant painting if they realize that it's all just a trick. But, an amazing thing happens, once someone pays the $180, they're almost impossible to convince that they've been duped by a trick. Once someone falls for the trick, that's it, you can't convince them that they were tricked, and they'd rather believe in the miracle instead.

when even an elephant can paint better than you

Cruel trick - these poor elephants are tortured

They are not trained or abused in order to do this! They are talented and even smarter than we are. I bet that elephant can come to your house and kill your ass if it wanted to!

Elephants CAN paint - they are amazing animals and paint from memory. I saw one paint a landscape of his home. They are not trained to do this. It is amazing

This must be fake. No elephant can paint. Must be a robot elephant controlled by remote. Fake elephant.

I think I'm learning to paint from watching an elephant!

I am sorry to say, but I don't belief this. There must be some sort of trick to this

Amazing

Does this count as Animal Abuse?

it fuckin makes me mad that us dumb humans kill this smart creatures for clothing and other things smh look how smart these animals are if only humans weren't so stupid..

wow speechless.. better then what I can do in a entire day

This is cruel!!! The elephants are forced to do this - can you really imagine that they do this naturally?? www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/why-making-an-elephant-paint-is-cruel-not-cute/

Woooooouuuuu amazing.......smart elephant....love it

I just love how beautiful these animals minds are so sweet and so pure it shows in the pictures they are painting people could learn from them

wow this is genius!!!!