>It was on tv. The elephant paints different pictures, rather abstract >and people are paying big bucks for the results. I saw this too. Found it insipidly semi-cute, and little more. I've also been to dog fesivals where dogs paint with watercolors placed on their wiggling tails, and the "pantings" (horrid splotches) look remarkably like the elephant splotches. I noticed the tv show with the elephant didn't mention any um....pachyderm-paintings collectors, the museums that had bought them for their permanent collections, or galleries carrying the work. I suppose next we'll be talking about Crows as found-mltimedia artists. Yawn. -- L.