Interesting video. Spoiler alert below....
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At first with the smoke and fireworks I was wondering what was going on. And I was amazed at how calm and subdued the animal was during the process.
Reading the story, and seeing the video, I’m guessing it was already so drugged it didn’t suffer too much - I hope so. I have no idea if it really needed to be killed or not.
The description below the video states that, prior to the electrocution, the elephant was fed carrots laced with over a pound of cyanide.
I am reminded of the assassination of Grigori Rasputin, who was fed cakes and wine laced with cyanide, but ultimately had to be shot multiple times before being dumped into th Malaya Nevka River in St. Petersburg.
I have no idea if it really needed to be killed or not.
Supposedly, Topsy had killed one James Fielding Blount, a circus spectator / trespasser who harassed the elephant with a lit cigar on her trunk.