The Four-Tusked Elephant

Scientists often test the accuracy of a hypothesis or an educated guess. What was Denis's hypothesis in "The Four-Tusked Elephant"?

Scientists often work with accuracy and deal with educated guess. Here Denis's first hypothesis was that whether the four-tusked elephant really existed that could talk in human voice. But unlike common people the scientist Denis didn't stop here rather wanted to prove what was the reality. He contacted many local inhabitants, pigmies who claimed that they had seen the four-tusked elephant many times. Westerners also believed its existence. Denis himself wanted to observe whether the elephant existed or not. With much hardship, he reached to the place where the four- tusked elephant was supposed to be found. He only saw elephants with two tusks. Then he concluded that it was myth.

But later when he was in Butembo Hotel, he heard four Belgians talking about an African who had claimed that the four-tusks he was stilling was from dead elephant. Then, Denis went to the seller to buy the tusks but they were already taken for providing him the four tusks. He contacted Mumbeli to provide him the skull. Lastly when Denis got the skull he brought it to Belgium. The tusks were carried to Beutral skull's holes. He proved that the four-tusk elephant really existed it was not a myth but a reality. This all process shows that scientists always test the accuracy of a hypothesis and work with educated guess. They never take things for granted. This difficult work of Denis shows how scientists work accuracy, perfect experimentation, and analysis and finally draw a reliable conclusion based on educated guess.