Scramble for meat

in #life6 years ago

Fights broke out as villagers in a remote part of Africa battled to strip chunks of flesh from the animal and drag them away to feed their families.

It took just one hour and 47 minutes for the 13ft-tall elephant to be reduced to a skeleton. Every part was used for food, even the trunk and ears.

The bones of the 70-year-old animal were taken to boil for soup and within 24 hours nothing was left but a blood-stained patch of earth32875012_1725627890864619_3335792053878521856_n.jpg

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