Top 10 craziest animal experiments
china.org.cn / chinagate.cn by Xu Lin, January 14, 2014 Adjust font size:
Injecting an elephant with LSD
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Injecting an elephant with LSD [File photo] |
What happens if you give an elephant LSD? A group of researchers led by Warren Thomas, director of Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, conducted such an experiment. In 1962, they fired a cartridge-syringe containing 297 milligrams of LSD into the rump of an elephant named Tusko. The elephant began to walk erratically, and then slumped and died.
