[Mariah4life]

these elephants were starved and beaten by the owners daily to be able to do tthese things.

There are numerous articles and videos on this alone. Yup, this elephant drawing industry in Thailand

sad

[Vertigo Stick]

Is Suda coming for our faves next?

Originally posted by mylicious

while I think this is very cute, dont you guys ask yourself how they did learn that? I am afraid they got trained to do that and got threated like in a zoe when they didnt do it right.. you know.. hurt and stuff.. some animals get trained and are literally brainwashed cuz of money hungry humans

[Vespertine]

These videos are pretty deceptive. There's usually a trainer guiding them (probably by tugging on their ear out of view), and they're trained beforehand (sometimes cruelly) to follow along.

That image of an elephant is a purely human abstraction anyways, no way an elephant would draw it the same way. It's like the way that everyone tends to draw a football-shaped eye, or a rectangle with a circle on top to represent a tree; those aren't how we actually perceive the subjects, but they're artistic shorthand for them.