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When Ruby, a
seven-month-old elephant from Thailand, came {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the Phoenix Zoo in 1974, she was the only
elephant at the zoo. Her roommates were some chickens and a goat.
Ruby was very bored. She had no elephants
around her. She was given food and everything she needed, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} she had nothing to do, When the workers at the
zoo saw Ruby scratching(刮) the ground {#blank#}3{#/blank#} A stick, they had an idea. They gave her a
paint brush and some paint. With just a little bit of help from her trainer,
Ruby became a {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(paint) of her
own style. She produced many paintings. Her {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(expensive) painting was sold for $25, 000.
Elephants have the brains to learn how {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (paint). But just like people, not all of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} have the interest or talent(天赋) to turn it into a "career". Ruby
was one of the few who did.
Ruby {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(die) in 1998, at the age of 25—very
young for an elephant.
There are very few elephant {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (art) left in North America. In Asia, there
are programs trying to develop elephant artists. Money got from the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(sell) of their art goes towards
protecting wild(野生的) elephants.
