![]() "You know, there's more to it than shooting a bull, taking a photograph, becoming a hero and all this other nonsense." "When you take a bull like that, there's a lot of remorse, there's a lot of sadness, you think about the great life that this elephant has led." "To be in a position to hunt a bull like that, it's an incredible privilege," Kachelhoffer told the Blood Originspodcast. The large elephant was carrying 91kg of ivory in its nearly eight-foot-long tusks before it was shot dead by professional hunter Leon Kachelhoffer.Īccording to The Times, Kachelhoffer paid around US$50,000 for the days-long hunt on Botswana’s northern border with Namibia in order to kill the elephant on behalf of a wealthy client. There are only a small number of tusker elephants alive with estimates ranging from 20 to 40 tuskers left in the world. ![]() Tusker elephants are elephants with tusks that are so large they almost touch the ground. ![]() Botswana's biggest tusker elephant has been killed by a trophy hunter, re-igniting debate in the country around elephant hunting. ![]()
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