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Elephants, giraffes, lemurs, and even a cockroach at the Oakland Zoo have been exploring their creative sides to produce colourful paintings that have been auctioned for charity. Elephants were helped to hold paintbrushes in their trunks and giraffes in their mouths and produced their artwork one stroke at a time. Goats, lemurs, and meerkats had their hooves, paws or claws dabbed with nontoxic, water-based paint and ran over a blank sheet of poster board. Amy Gotliffe is the Conservation Director of Oakland Zoo - she spoke to Newsday about the project... (Photo: Maggie the goat creating a masterpiece Credit: Erin Dogan Harrison/Oakland Zoo)