There I was, just standing alone enjoying my meal in the field when suddenly I felt a sharp pain on my head. I did not know what it was but I decided to just ignore it; must be an insect. Then it happened a few more times and I knew it was not a bug. I fell to the ground in immense pain. After what seemed like seconds, I was surrounded by hundreds of people who looked like they were waiting for me to die. I saw a small boy I recognized in the crowd of people and he had a look of terror on his face. That’s when I knew what had happened; I had been shot several times, they were trying to kill me. In the above scenario, a male Asian elephant is experiencing being shot to death by a rifle in George Orwell’s short story “Shooting an Elephant” set in the 1920’s. In this story, a police officer receives a call about an elephant in the bazaar. He gets on his horse, with a gun not suitable to do any damage to an elephant, and he rides to the bazaar in Lower Burma, where the elephant is said to be. When asked the actions of the elephant, the Burmans were extremely vague and did not seem to care much about the elephant’s whereabouts. George Orwell, the officer, finds a man who had the skin on his back stripped off and his body ground into the earth. He eventually finds the elephant away from the small town in a field, calming eating grass. Orwell was then faced with the decision of whether or not to shoot the elephant, which he does not want to do. He eventually makes the decision of shooting the elephant solely to not look like a fool. George Orwell was not justified in killing the elephant due to the elephant’s temperament, the crowd’s presence, and the elephant’s death. One of the most convincing reasons why Orwell acted wrongly was because of the natural behavior of the elephant. Elephant’s go through a normal phase called musth. There are three stages to musth; the first stage is known as pre-musth. In the pre-musth stage, one of the most obvious symptoms is the perineal region, beneath the tail, enlarges. According to elephantcare.org, the temporal glands begin to have a discharge which has a very fowl scent. The elephant begins to have urine constantly dripping without control. The elephant also begins to become very violent, goring any moving or non-moving object that catches its attention. In the second stage, called violent-musth, there are three different phases. These phases include the initial phase, the middle phase, and the final phase. In the initial phase, the elephant disobeys any and all commands given by the mahout. The secretion of the fluid in the temporal glands is slo