Zoo Elephant Rocks Harmonica [VIDEO]

05/03/2012

In what could be the abosolute cutest thing we've seen since this dog, Shanthi the elephant at the National Zoo in Washington is developing her musical chops by playing a harmonica with her trunk.

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Creative zookeepers attached a harmonica attached to her stall after elephant keeper Debbie Flinkman noticed that the 36-year-old Asian elephant was 'musically inclined.'

”Shanthi also likes to tap things, flap her ears against objects to make noise and rub her leg up and down shrubs to repeat noises," Flinkman related to the Daily Telegraph.  The zookeepers apparently need not even prompt Shanthi play the harmonica, as she has developed an inifinity for the craft simply on her own.

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Shanthi was a gift from Sri Lanka and according to her musical coaches/zookeepers, tends to favour making songs that end in a crescendo.

Check Shanthi rocking the harmonica in the video below:

 

Photo source: National Zoo

-Janet McCulley

Comments

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A simple harmonica and we can make Shanthi so happy. haha.

[ZaCloud]

That's at least one good thing we humans can do for animals... It's amazing how many animals have artistic or musical tendencies, despite not really being able to create the means to express them. But if we humans give them those tools, some of them eagerly and gratefully take to it~!

(By the way, article-writer, I think you meant "she has developed an affinity", not "infinity". ;P)

[Tamarssie]

That's at least one good thing we humans can do for animals... It's amazing how many animals have artistic or musical tendencies, despite not really being able

[Dixon L. Creasey, Jr.]

Niiiice!
I'm a musician. I wish I had the wherewithal to build a harmonica for her that would be a better size, with hole spacings suitable for her. Then she would be able to work on her melody lines!
(I won't even discuss the drum kit I envision...)
Rock on, Shanthi!

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ooo that is really fantastic. Can't believe that a simple harmonica makes this elephant so happy...

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