An elephant paints pictures with its truck at a sanctuary in Thailand.

Footage shows the jumbo Nong Namthong holding a tiny brush and using it to scribble lines on a piece of paper on an easel in Nan province on August 7.

He usually draws scenes from inside the animal camp, often depicting large trees with elephants playing under them.

As of 2023, there are an estimated 3,084-3,500 wild elephants in Thailand. The population has been increasing in recent years, but it is still a fraction of the estimated 300,000 wild elephants that lived in Thailand at the beginning of the 20th century. The main threats to wild elephants in Thailand are habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and conflict with humans.