Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I watched this video of an elephant painting a “self portrait“. It's really quite something — if you don't have patience, skip to the end to see the image.

That said, not that elephants aren't incredibly intelligent and self-aware animals, but this is actually a remarkable feat of animal training, not of independent artistic impression (I'm reminded of a book I greatly enjoyed, Why Cats Paint)… I watched some other videos and all the elephants repeatedly create the same paintings. Impressive, but not quite as exciting.