Elephant on LSD is #1!

The foibles of man knows no bounds. The figure of the mad scientist looms large in fact and fiction for a simple reason. They're for real! If you need further proof, New Scientist has put together a listing of the top ten wackiest experiments of all time. And the # 1 is Elephant on Acid:

When Warren Thomas, the director of Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, approached Tusko the elephant with a syringe full of LSD in 1962, he thought that he was about to make a major contribution to science.

Within a few moments of being injected, Tusko began trumpeting furiously, before keeling over as if he had been shot. An hour later, he was dead. “It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD,” Thomas and his colleagues concluded.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. via timesonline