Animal art: Exhibition of paintings by apes and elephants

2 February 2012 Last updated at 19:06 ET Help

A work of abstract expressionism by a chimp and a still life of a flower by an elephant are part of a new exhibition of artworks created by animals.

The UCL Grant Museum of Zoology in London has commissioned a series of pieces by a gorilla, a chimp, two elephants and an orangutan to question what is and what isn't a work of art.

David Sillito reports.

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