Animals Painting

Animals Painting!

Sammy, a foxhound mix, uses a paintbrush attached to a rubber bone, to paint a canvas at a gallery at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Md. Mary Stadelbacher, owner of Shore Service Dogs, has a collection of abstract paintings daubed by her three service dogs in training. The creations are rudimentary, to be sure, but the pictures of bright strokes across white canvasses are winning fans because of their tail-wagging creators.

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This clever sea lion is the Picasso of the aquatic world. Children can watch the master at work at an aquarium in Beijing, China.

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Pinto, an accomplished painter for a Yucatan miniature pig, gets his snout into an original work of art at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Using a selection of primary color non-toxic paint, Pinto mixes them in innovative ways (using hooves, snout, objects and sometimes food items) to create his one-off masterpieces.

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Taj, a 68-year-old female Asian elephant, takes paintbrush to canvas at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif.. With help from elephant trainers who apply paint to her brush, Taj grasps the brush handle with the end of her trunk and paints large and small strokes to create her mini-masterpieces. Her most recent work of art will be auctioned off on behalf of the company's philanthropic arm, Six Flags Friends.

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Ricky, a 7 year-old Rockhopper penguin, makes a painting to raise money for wildlife conservation efforts. "What we did basically was put some paint on the floor and aim him toward it with a fish on the other side," Martin Vince, curator of birds at the South Carolina zoo, said. "I would call it a special penguin version of abstract painting."

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Cholla, the painting horse, works on his latest masterpiece at his owner Renee Chambers' ranch in Reno, NV.

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Asuka, a three-year-old female chimpanzee, paints her work at Izu Shaboten Park in Ito, southwest of Tokyo. Asuka grips her palette and slaps and jabs the canvas with her brush, creating works that suggest the blur of brightly colored birds or chaotic sprays of flowers.

Master Painter Asuka Exhibition Organizing Committee / AP