So they contacted Thomas and he of course, very readily agreed to take that elephant, but it was still the bank’s elephant. Well, another thing that a lot of people don’t realize with him, he is the first person, as far as I know, in any zoo or anywhere to do an experiment with LSD on an animal. And I was not yet working there, but I did see the film of it later. He used that elephant as, you know, as an experimental animal, basically to see what this LSD, ’cause nobody knew what LSD was gonna do. And he started off With a dose that may have been appropriate for a house cat. And that led to the realization that LSD was not like other drugs, and it wasn’t based on weight or size. It was based on the kind of animal, as the reaction you’re gonna get. And that elephant died.
