Three elephants from the Thai nature reserve were disguised as pandas

News24xx.com - Employees from elephant reserve in southern Thailand in the exhibition "1600 pandas" repainted three elephants in black and white colors such a way that they resemble pandas, according to "People's Daily Online".

The elephants were hand-painted: the legs, trunks and eyes of the animals were painted in  black, and the trunks and heads - in white. For this, acrylic paint was used. Employee of the reserve said that the exhibition was only one day, and the elephants disguised as pandas spended there only for a couple of hours. Due to the characteristics of the elephant skin, the paint did not harm the animals.
Users of social networks reacted differently to the idea of employees of the reserve. On the one hand, they were accused of having deprived elephants of natural uniqueness. On the other hand, they expressed the opinion that elephants, like pandas, belong to endangered species of animals, and also deserve attention.

The exhibition "1600 pandas" was held on the territory of the elephant reserve and was devoted to the problem of the disappearance of pandas. Today, only 1600 animals live in the wild.

The idea of ?he exhibition belongs to the French artist Paulo Grangeon, who, in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, decided to show what cities would look like if only pandas lived in them. For this he made 1600 animals from papier-mache. Since 2008, the artist visited with his exhibition such cities as: Paris, Rome, Berlin, Beijing, Hong Kong.