Hoity Toity (novel)

Hoity Toity (Russian: Хойти-Тойти) is a 1929 Soviet science fiction novella written by Alexander Belyayev.

The novel, part of the Professor Wagner's Inventions series, was first published in Vsemirny Sledopyt magazine between January and February 1930.

It is gradually revealed that the elephant possess the brain of a human and was created by Professor Wagnor many years ago.

As the elephant returns to the circus with Professor Wagnor, his assistant reads the notes which describes the brain transplantation events in Congo.

The brain in the elephant belonged to a young German scientist called Ring, whose heart was destroyed in an accident.

Wagnor and his assistant Peskov carried the brain to Belgian Congo to conduct the transplantation on a live elephant.