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See What Happens to an Elephant After Elephant Hunting


This is a pretty enlightening series of photos:
What happens to an elephant after all of the elephant hunting is over.

NOTHING IS WASTED

Once an elephant is shot, the meat is given to the local villagers.

It IS legal to hunt elephants in many African countries.
The meat is given to local people, it’s never wasted.
The money from hunting the elephant goes towards elephant conservation.

The elephant meat is given to the villages

The trophy fee on a elephant is quite expensive,
more then any of the locals will make in a lifetime,
so this system works out well for all involved.

The village butchering the elephant

Once an elephant is shot, the villagers just start to appear. Word gets out fast.

More villagers showing up to butcher the elephant

It is like a celebration when an elephant is killed, the entire village will join in.

The entire village will join in on butchering the elephant.

No protein ever goes to waste in Africa.
Several of the ivory hunters who wrote books commented on how quickly the meat was used,
and on how villagers would scavenge and boil the green meat from carrion days old if they found it.

Every Scrap of meat is stripped from the bones

The natives cut all of the meat off the bone and take it to their village to eat.
They don’t let anything go to waste.

Within hours there is nothing left of the elephant

The myth of the “elephant graveyard” began because nobody ever saw any dead ones lying about.
Within hours, or at most a couple of days, a dead elephant will be completely gone.


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