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Written by Debbie Smit Sunday, 24 May 2009 00:00

This video on funnyordie.com shows an elephant painting a self-portrait. To the strains of Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek, our intrepid elephant first scans the canvas and then, in bold flourishes, proceeds to create the unmistakeable outlines of a pachyderm. As a final touch, while his peers are jogging around in the background, he paints a disproportionately large orange flower (about as big as the painted elephant's head) held aloft in his trunk. This, I believe, gives the game away. No self-respecting elephant could get it so wrong.