Painting pachyderms

You would perhaps think that by the title of my post, I am talking about people painting pictures of elephants, or perhaps people actually putting pain ON elephants, but I’m talking about elephants that paint! I was sent a link today by a friend to a youtube video that was showing elephants using paintbrushes to paint real pictures! I was so totally surprised at how very well the elephants could paint. I hope that the trainers were not mean to them when they were training them! The paintings were absolutely remarkable! I never would have thought that elephants had that much manual dexterity with their trunks!