Topsy’s old trainer Whitey Ault was offered a then handsome sum of $25 to help bring the elephant to her demise, but the saddened trainer turned it down, saying he wouldn’t do it for a thousand. So, they opted for the electrocution. And an incident Topsy had with the Coney Island police, which was brought on by a ruthless trainer, made the elephant a big problem for her owners. It was produced by the Edison film company and is believed to have been shot by Edwin S. Porter or Jacob Blair Smith. Topsy the elephant’s owners decided that she was too much of a liability and a safety issue since she had killed three trainers within three years. "Topsy" is the sixteenth episode in Season 3, being the thirty-eighth episode overall. When she gets a different science teacher, Mr. Dinkler, he won't let Louise turn it in and stomps on the volcano, destroying it. In the years following her death, many have defended the elephant’s violent behaviors and stated they were due to the poor treatment she was given (as well as the treatment many early circus animals were received).
When Wagstaff School has their fourth-grade science fair coming up, Louise wants to turn in her baking soda and vinegar volcano again from last year.
Topsy's life ended a century ago, snuffed out in front of a carnival crowd that gathered for a spectacle that became a milestone for both technological progress and animal cruelty. But as is so often the case, that tale is not quite so simple. Topsy was a domesticated elephant with the Forepaugh Circus at Coney Island's and she killed three men. She was deemed a threat to people by her owners and they discussed several means of … She had killed 3 men in as many years although it was undoubtedly because she was severely abused by her trainers. Electrocuting an Elephant is a 1903 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film of the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park.
Topsy was an Asian elephant (species name: Elephas maximus), the only elephant species native to Asia. It is arguably the most famous animal execution ever—the killing of Topsy the elephant at Luna Park on Coney Island in January 1903. Topsy was a female elephant born in Southeast Asia and brought to the U.S. soon thereafter (illegally, it turns out) to join a group of performing pachyderms at the Forepaugh Circus.
Barnum obtained a young elephant with white patches on its face and trunk and exhibited it as Toung Taloung, "Gem of the Sky," a sacred white elephant he supposedly purchased in Burma for $200,000.
They have been an endangered species since 1986, with less than 60,000 individuals still alive by the beginning of the 21st century.
The victim of excessive mistreatment at the hands of her handlers, she cultivated a reputation for rampaging and lashing back at those who tried to hurt or corral her. During the 25 years she was there, Topsy gained a reputation as being dangerous. Topsy the elephant was a member of the performing elephant herd of the Forepaugh Circus for the majority of her life. So they decided to capitalize on the situation by staging and publicizing a live electrocution of an elephant … Their habitat range includes various countries in South Asia, Southeastern Asia, and East Asia. The Tale of Topsy the Elephant That was Electrocuted, Poisoned and Strangulated Historical accounts of Topsy’s errant behaviour.
To be more precise, it’s to be guilty of being a wild-caught elephant held captive in a human-made environment unnatural for her kind.
But Topsy was expensive to maintain.
Topsy was a domesticated elephant with the Forepaugh Circus at Coney Island's Luna Park. In those days, like other circus animals, Topsy was a victim of... Topsy the elephant’s electrocution.