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Adding the paint was the next step. Maggie earned a fish for every successful brushstroke.
Her trainer said, “I started teaching her to paint last year, and she caught on quickly.”
The trainer has saved all the paintings. She’ll probably sell them to raise money to help animals.
Maggie, a California sea lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo, has been amazing visitors by painting for her supper. She has created dozens of paintings.
Maggie spent three months learning to hold the paintbrush in her mouth and to touch it to the canvas.