I have a couple of friends who have gone elephant hunting, and My father has been. I've heard all of their stories and they are pretty much identical in detail as to what happens.

Hunting for elephant is very dangerous! But by all accounts the danger has just begun once the elephant is killed. It seems that the rest of the heard tend to surround their fallen member and defend them. Then once that has been dealt with you have to deal with all the natives that show up out of clear air. They want the meat and they don't have much patience. They are carring homemade knives, hatchets, and buckets.

The PH and trackers get first choice. The Trackers go directly for the entrails. The most priced piece of meat seems to be the anus and bowels. The slice sections of it out, scoop out the feces, wash it, and chow down!

The hunter, ph, & trackers have to preform "crowd control" to keep it from turning into a mob scene. While the Ivory, Ears, feet, etc. are harvested. Once they have what they want the literally run to the truck and high tail it out of dodge. The natives swarm the elephant and fight for there share. Apparently it doesn't bother them to kill or mame their fellow man for one extra bucket of elephant meat. Its survival of the fittest, kill or be killed, every man for himself scene.