Clever Dumbo?

Submitted by Neil Cohn on April 20, 2008 - 14:57

The Language Evolution blog posts this interesting youtube video showing an elephant painting a picture of an elephant:

I've vocalized often that as much as there is a debate about whether animals can or do have language (they don't), we know of no animals that draw. By drawing, I mean that they employ tool use to graphically achieve conceptual expression (that is usually iconic).