Soccer Playing Elephants
By Lothar. Filed in Thailand |
Yes, you are reading this correctly. We visited an elephant camp and saw trained elephants kick the ball back and forth, dance to music, shake their rear ends and wildly rotating their trunks to the music. It almost looked like they were having fun to be a star.
The truly amazing thing was to see the elephants painting. The trainer gives the elephant the correct color paintbrush, and four animals were painting flowers with stems, leaves and blossoms right in front of our eyes. Another elephant was doing an impressionist type of painting. If you think this isn’t a big deal, just before we arrived, the elephants painted a record size canvas, which made it into the Guiness Book of World Records and sold to an American for 39, ooo USD. That should buy a lot of bananas and sugar cane, which is what we were feeding the elephants. Gabi has digital photos to prove that the Singha beer did not give me hallucinations!