Tusko The Elephant
Description
This is the story that Dr. Jolly West is most notorious for. The one that earned him the most press and attention in real-time. The one the press lambasted him for. The story of a feisty teenage-like creature named Tusko.
Jolly was 38 years old when he invited a crowd to come to watch his latest experiment. Tusko, an adolescent bull elephant, had been purchased from the Phoenix area for $3,500 which would be around $35,000 today.
The day before the experiment, a compressed air rifle was used to shoot a placebo control dose of penicillin into Tusko. He exhibited the expected symptoms “immediate startle response… 2 or 3 minutes of restlessness followed by normal behavior throughout the day.” The real experiment would be the next morning at 8am.
Show Notes
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SOURCES
O'Neill, Tom. Chaos . Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition.
https://thislandpress.com/2013/07/29/the-electric-elephant-acid-test/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/feb/26/research.science
https://www.treehugger.com/historical-timeline-of-animal-rights-movement-127594
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring_monkeys



