The Guardian has this article up regarding incredibly strange experiments and tests being conducted around the world that gives scientists something to do other than you know work on a cure for like cancer or something. One of those experiments involves taking a tranquilizer gun and loading it up with a dose of LSD 3000x what the normal dose for humans is and shooting it into the ass of an elephant. The elephant died a minute later. The research team concluded four months later that:
It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD.
Yes, yes it would appear so.
This doesn’t particularly surprised me. I realize the animal is big but 3000x the normal amount of a mind altering drug? They’re lucky the elephant didn’t actually grow wings instead of just thinking it could fly. There’s also stories of the guy that paved the way for the first human heart transplant and how he used to try and create two headed dogs and other strange stuff. Strangest tale goes to the guy that put dead animals on a seasaw in an attempt to bring them back to life, something that actually worked except the animals were braindead afterwards. Nutty.
Article: The Guardian - Strange Science Experiments
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
This is extreme cruelty and I hope the person who did it was prosecuted. How wicked. How pointless.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:09 am
It’s doubtful they were. Probably a science experiment paid for by the government. I can actually understand the point of trying to come up with a better tranquilizer for elephants I suppose but 3000 times a normal human dose of LSD does seem a bit excessive. Maybe start off with something smaller and work from there. But I’m no scientist, I don’t know how much thought and what kind of calculations went into that test.