Good on you perhaps for injecting a lighter note, but I'd personally rather that these very upsetting events retain their gravity and perhaps shock us into action.

Case in point the Australian bush fires earlier this year.

Half a billion or so dead animals and millions of hectares of habitat burned to a crisp.

But cue happy news stories about someone rescuing a koala and feeding it milk from a baby bottle - something that makes absolutely not one jot of difference to the massive death and devastation contributed to by our (humans) shitty environmental stewarding.

Interesting. Since this is from BBC Earth I guess it's legit, but from my earlier understanding, painter elephants typically go through long processes of torture to "learn" how to paint things for tourists. I will skip linking to any references since we are on the topic of a mass elephant death, but you can easily find them on the Web.

Or perhaps my understanding was incorrect all along?

All the videos of painting elephants I've seen include a handler that very clearly is holding their tusk or ear. I'd absolutely love this to be true but it quite honestly seems like puppeteering?