Sandra, a 42-year-old elephant, poses for a photo with Hungarian circus fans who bought her painting in the Florian Richter Circus in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday. (Reuters photo)BUDAPEST: Paintings created by an Indian elephant who enjoys wielding a brush were auctioned off by a Hungarian travelling circus on Saturday. Three of 42-year-old elephant Sandra's abstract canvasses, with coloured lines flowing across them resembling rivers, fetched about 40,000 forints (5,000 baht) each. Sandra paints with her trunk purely for pleasure, according to her owner and trainer Florian Richter, a horse acrobat and circus director. Sandra arrived as a baby elephant at the circus where Richter grew up, as a seventh generation member of an acrobat family.

Source: Bangkok Post November 05, 2017 05:03 UTC