Top 10 craziest animal experiments

By Xu Lin
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 Injecting an elephant with LSD

Injecting an elephant with LSD, one of the 'top 10 craziest animal experiments' by china.org.cn.

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.

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