Elephant uses her trunk to paint on canvas in viral video. This is animal torture, says Internet

The video shows a nine-year-old elephant painting on a canvas with the help of brushes that she held with her trunk.

A video of an elephant painting on a canvas has surfaced on the internet and social media users aren’t quite pleased about it. “This is animal abuse. Stop promoting it,” netizens said as the short clip went viral with over 86,000 views. A painting by an elephant in Thailand sold for $5.5k+ in an online fundraiser for the Maetang Elephant Camp.The painting shows a silhouette of 9-year-old elephant Nong Thanwa and her friend Dumbo. Nong painted it herself using her trunk pic.twitter.com/C9QF9WR85F Sorry, but this is crap. Stop abusing animals! This is awful... You can see him squeezing it's ear to get it to respond.. Ridiculous.. Can we stop promoting and showing animal torture please. This is animal abuse. Stop promoting it Delete this tweet unless it’s to highlight animal cruelty and abuse. DisgustingAbusing this poor elephant Please stop by glamorizing animal abuse. Stop giving tbem publicity. On the other hand, shame them. Terrible!!!! Elephants shouldn’t be forced to engage in such foolishness! The video was posted to Twitter by New York-based news organization NowThis and shows Nong Thanwa, a nine-year-old elephant, painting on a canvas with the help of brushes that she held with her trunk. Her keeper, who stood beside her, helped dip the brushes in the paints as Nong Thanwa carefully painted the picture.