| ORIGINAL Elephant Painting - 509 sec Can your elephant paint? Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint a beautiful image of an elephant. You'll be amazed at how her talent unfolds as she carefully completes each stroke. Her mahout talks to her throughout the process as his gentle touch gives her confidence. She focuses on her work and seems to enjoy the approval of the audience and, of course, the sugar cane and banana treats. All of her training has been reward based.
So touched by their horrific backgrounds and loving personalities, ExoticWorldGifts.com now supports, "Starving Elephant Artisans" by selling their paintings so they can continue to have a new life in Thailand.
Some Thai elephant experts believe that the survival of the Asian elephant species will most likely depend on the good treatment of the elephants in well managed privately owned elephant camps. All of us would prefer that all of the elephants be free to be in the wild. For many reasons, that is not possible at this time.
You can learn more and purchase these unique paintings at ExoticWorldGifts.com Tags: Elephant Painting Exotic World Gifts  | | The Elephant Song - Cool Tunes for Kids by Eric Herman - 186 sec http://www.EricHermanMusic.com/ytcds.html
Kids' music artist, Eric Herman, sings an incredibly cute song all about elephants... sort of... The video was created by his wife, Roseann, with the help of their 3 year-old (at the time) daughter, Becca. The little girl in the song is Meghan Kleinlein from Amherst, NY, who was 6 at the time.
This version of "The Elephant Song" is on Eric's first CD, The Kid in the Mirror, and a new version featuring his daughters, Becca and Evee, is on Snail's Pace.
The guitar TAB and chords/lyrics for this song are available here: http://www.erichermanmusic.com/kidlyrics.html
Eric's CDs/MP3s are available at the following locations:
Eric's website (CDs and MP3 albums):
http://www.EricHermanMusic.com/cds.html
CDBaby (CDs and MP3 albums):
http://www.cdbaby.com/all/ericherman
iTunes (MP3 songs and albums):
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=4262051&forceArtistPage=1
Kidzmusic.com (MP3s):
http://www.kidzmusic.com/cart/show_items.asp?CatID=20&MainCatID=7
Amazon.com (CDs):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=eric+herman&x=0&y=0
Amazon.com (MP3s):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_dmusic?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music-track&field-keywords=eric+herman&x=0&y=0
CDs are also available at http://www.pokeypup.com and MP3s are also available at all other major digital distribution sites.
If you like this song, please request it on XM Radio by calling 866-328-2345 (ch. 116) and on Sirius by calling 877-337-4748 (ch. 116), or ask your local library if they can carry Eric Herman's CDs!
To book Eric Herman for your event or venue, please contact him through http://www.EricHermanMusic.com/contact.html Tags: elephant monkey fish dog cat rooster bear frog mouse animals ericherman eric herman children's kids music song tune cut | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Elephant-blogging in Benin with Xeni (BBtv WORLD: West Africa) - 289 sec BBtv online: http://tv.boingboing.net. Today's Boing Boing tv is an installment of our ongoing BBtv WORLD series, in which we bring you first-person glimpses of life around the globe. Today: an ambient exploration of the creatures rustling around in a West African wildlife preserve at dawn.
I traveled to Benin not long ago, and I shot this video on a small handheld digital camcorder. This episode of our daily show is a little experiment in trying to convey what this place feels like, first-person, without too many words.
The Pendjari Biosphere lies in Benin's remote rural northwest, along the border of Burkina Faso. Despite poaching and environmental damage, it's still home to a diverse number of species -- elephants, lions, monkeys, cheetah, and around 300 species of birds. We traveled here during the dry season, when animal spotting is easiest. Here is what we saw at dawn (the time of day when critters all come out to the watering holes and rivers).
Poaching is still a big problem in this area, and organized trophy hunting for foreign tourists is still legal and in demand here (mostly visitors from France; Benin is a former French colony and French is the official language). Lion hunts are a lucrative trade in this extremely poor region, where most people are subsistence farmers.
But eco-tourism and less-invasive safari experiences are becoming more important to the local economy here, and offer a more sustainable future.
Note: don't miss the epic baboon ball-grab at 0:35, and the mama elephant ripping tree branches off and getting ready to kill us around 1:50. We were too close to her kids, and we were having a hard time leaving quickly. Do not taunt happy-fun elephant. Tags: Africa BBtv World animals eco green xeni jardin Benin West pendjari ecotourism elephants wildlife safari lions earth | | Elephants Dream - 595 sec Elephants Dream is a computer-generated movie made using open source applications that premiered on March 24, 2006. Beginning production in September, 2005, it was developed under the name Orange by a team of seven artists and animators from around the world. It was originally known as Machina, before being changed to Elephants Dream to more closely match the storyline. Tags:cgi blender animation |
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