They can paint!

[jingofever]

Link.

Ok, I'm going to sound like a jerk, but they all stink. It looks like they're flinging paint like its poop. Elephants are still the best artists in the jungle and hyenas tell the best jokes.

[Penguin]

Bah. My homie animals dont paint, theyre just telepathic empathic.
But only when I wanna listen and am spacing, lazing with them.
When I let em look me in the eye, deep deep. Open up, innocent, open up, come come come on little beutiful baby, love, pretty animal, come come Im all open in my eyes...Ill never hurt you love, I hurt like you, my heart beats like yours, my blood is red like yours, my breath escapes to cold cold skies when my time is done..Come come love, look me deep, deep blue...

[Foote Hertz]

koko bad koko sad

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Animals paint by removing the paint that's been applied by humans.

Tom Waits told me, and I believe him. There's a video where he explains it. Try to ignore the annoying man to his right.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A7K7451NLOs

[barracuda]

Monkeys as Judges of Art by Gabriel Cornelius von Max