Did you know that an elephant plops out about a hundred pounds of poop per day? That's because an elephant's basically inefficient digestion system dumps out about 50% of what it takes in.

Did you know that one day's worth of elephant poop is enough to produce 115 sheets of paper? That's because elephant poop is mostly fiber ideally suited for manufacturing paper.

Would you use paper made from elephant poop? It doesn't smell bad. In fact, it doesn't smell much at all, and it's 100% bacteria free, according to the Thai Elephant Conservation Center Website.

As you can see on one of the Center's photo-filled web pages, elephant poop paper is manufactured by first using the elephants themselves to collect and transport massive quantities of dung to the processing center. There it is washed and boiled for five hours, after which it is spun dry, weighed out into equal-sized balls, distributed onto flat drying frames, dried in the sun, hand sanded to a fine finish, and cut into marketable sizes.

One of the many uses for the handcrafted paper is Elephant Art is by the talented elephants themselves, as they grasp paint brushes with their trunks and apply bold swaths of color to their poopy canvases. The art sells for modest prices under $100 and serves to support the conservation center, and to feed and care for Thailand's majestic elephants.

Get behind the elephants (not too closely, mind you!), and support the Thai Elephant Conservation Center's innovative poop-to-paper program.