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We've been waiting for a real flying elephant ever since Disney released the movie Dumbo in 1941. Unfortunately, the following image, purportedly showing a baby elephant hovering off the ground, is not the magical moment the animated classic foresaw: This image was created for a 2008 Photoshop contest on the web site Worth1000.com (a page geared toward graphic designers, later renamed DesignCrowd). The contest, called Levitations 7, invited users to create images which appeared to show objects floating in midair: This entry was submitted by Worth1000 user Polynic along with the comment: In addition to the source of this image, there are several other ways to tell that this picture is fake. For one, the jumping elephant's shadow is a different shade than the shadows of the larger elephants. Furthermore, elephants can't jump at all: This jumping elephant is also missing from the source photograph. We weren't able to definitively determine who took the original image, but one version of the original picture carried a watermark for Detlef Lehmann. Regardless, the original image did not feature a flying elephant:
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