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Do Africans eat elephants? Is elephant meat delicious?

Active hunting and picking up are two different things.

If you really see an African elephant, you will understand that hunting this thing is not an easy task. It is three to four meters tall and weighs four to five tons. Let alone being carried away by the tusks. I can't stand being pressed. Moreover, except for a few young males, African elephants are usually animals that live in groups. This is not a prey that ordinary animals dare to attack, and humans are certainly no exception.

Although Maasai tradition requires men to hunt lions at their 16-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, they have never heard of elephant hunting. Beating an elephant is very disproportionate in terms of benefits and risks.

As for the taste of elephant meat, I have never had a bad review, but considering the lifespan of elephants, adult elephants must have rough meat quality, which is definitely not as good as that of farmed animals. Traditionally, only the elephant trunk is eaten.

As for Africans, if they encounter ready-made elephant meat, they will not waste it. But such cases are rare, because most areas are already protected areas, and there are fewer and fewer elephants being hunted, and even fewer carcasses are picked up.

As early as 400,000 years ago, human ancestors began to eat elephants.

Today, in many parts of Africa, people still eat elephants.

(Grilled elephant meat)

In the Congo, 1 kilogram of elephant meat can be sold for 5 US dollars, which is equivalent to 5 US dollars of the locals’ daily income. times. In Central African countries, it can even be sold for 12 US dollars per kilogram. Of course, elephant meat is not the main food for Africans. The reason is that due to various countries’ efforts to protect elephants, almost all elephant meat sold on the market is obtained through poaching. Things are rare and expensive, and the high price prohibits ordinary people.

Therefore, these meats eventually became delicacies for dignitaries. In addition, elephant meat is sometimes supplied to the local army. However, compared to beef and mutton, elephant meat is thicker and not popular.

In recent years, as the number of elephants has declined, people need to enter inaccessible areas to hunt elephants. These places are inaccessible and it takes a long time to transport the meat out. Therefore, in order to ensure that the elephant meat will not deteriorate, they will smoke the meat on site to brown the surface of the meat. Then, they are transported to prosperous areas and sold.

(Smoked elephant meat has a longer shelf life)

In Africa, each pound of ivory sells for no more than $13, and elephant Meat can be sold for $5.50 per pound. An elephant can produce 100-200 kilograms of ivory, worth US$2,600. An elephant can produce more than 3,000 pounds of meat, which can be sold for nearly $20,000. Therefore, for local poachers, hunting elephants and selling their meat is more attractive than hunting elephants and selling their tusks.

According to the latest statistics, there are still more than 350,000 wild elephants, and at least 100 elephants die from hunting every day. If this continues, elephants will one day become rare animals.

(The remains of hunted elephants)

If there is no buying and selling, there will be no killing. I hope everyone can boycott the purchase of elephant meat!

In documentaries, we often see this scene: On the vast African savannah, herds of elephants are walking leisurely. The scene is very spectacular! Similarly, we have also seen stills like this: In war-torn Africa, hungry people are everywhere, and many people starve to death because they have no food! At this time, we can't help but think: An elephant weighs several tons, why don't these hungry people eat elephants?

I remember reading this story when I was a child: When Wang Rong was seven years old, he played with many children. Seeing that the plum tree beside the road was full of fruits and the branches were bent, the children rushed up to pick plums, but Wang Rong did not move. Someone asked him and he replied: "The tree is beside the road but it is full of fruits. It must be a bitter plum." When I picked it and tasted it, it turned out to be bitter.

This story is not without scientific basis. According to physiological knowledge, the smaller the animal, the more delicate the meat. Rabbit is more delicate than mutton; When it comes to elephant meat, it must be thick-skinned and inedible! Just like humans in times of famine would not eat the flesh of dead people unless absolutely necessary, the meat of large animals is very unpalatable. It is basically the same as chewing a leather belt. It cannot be chewed completely!

Another important reason why Africans would rather die than eat elephant meat is that elephants are their totems, beliefs and protectors. How can a person eat them easily? What about the patron saint who has given up his faith? In every national religious belief, this kind of behavior is unforgivable! In fact, elephants are protected animals all over the world because of their large size and rarity, and they are even a first-level national protected animal in China!

However, elephants, which are sacred and inviolable to most people, sometimes cannot escape the clutches of a small group of lawless elements. They kill elephants and only To obtain ivory that is classified as gold! For some barbarian tribes, elephants may sometimes become their main meal. A few years ago, there was a tragic scene where an elephant was eaten by hundreds of people in the village!

Therefore, it is a common fact that Africans do not eat elephants, but exceptions cannot be ruled out! Human beings are the masters of all living things on earth. I wish there would be less massacre and harm in the world!

This is a very interesting question~ After all, eating elephants is not as simple as eating chickens and cows. It is the largest mammal on land!

Based on my own understanding, I can tell you with certainty: 1. Africans eat elephants; 2. Elephant meat is rough and not delicious.

Let’s first talk about Africans eating elephants:

1. You don’t want to eat elephants, you can eat them if you want!

There are two reasons why elephants are not free to eat:

1-1: Hunting is extremely difficult

How much does an elephant weigh? According to Wikipedia, adult African male elephants are taller than 3.5m and can reach up to 4.1m. It weighs approximately 4 to 5 tons, with the heaviest recorded being 10 tons. In addition, it has rough skin and thick flesh, large and powerful nostrils, and extremely sharp fangs. It's impossible to defeat an elephant with ordinary cold weapons. It will kill you instantly at close range. Bringing a gun will increase your chances of winning, but elephants will also approach you very quickly, and the risk is also very high. Therefore, under the same conditions, Africans prefer to hunt prey such as monkeys and wild boars, and no one wants to provoke elephants.

Elephants are social animals and have very high IQs. This means that after you provoke a giant beast, you will provoke the revenge of a bunch of giant beasts. Such a thing that is not worth the gain is something that local Africans will not do.

1-2: Hunting is prohibited by law

Africa now has laws prohibiting the hunting of elephants and the sale of ivory. In addition, there are organized activities to protect elephants, including Return habitat, protect the environment and more.

Therefore, it is illegal for Africans to hunt if they want to eat elephant meat, and they will be held legally responsible. Therefore, few people would risk the law simply to eat elephant meat.

2. It is still difficult to ban the hunting of elephants, and the reason is sad

Although no one will actively hunt elephants to eat elephant meat, but in order to make money, some people will rashly action!

2-1: Opening the ban for economic development

Since the promulgation of the decree banning the hunting of elephants, there have been voices of doubt. In fact, many African countries want to resume this hunting activity. For example, the African country Botswana, which has the largest number of elephants in the world, is trying to lift the ban on elephant hunting because it hopes to develop its economy.

Residents of local countries believe that their own lives are not good, so why should they listen to the demands of people in developed countries to stagnate their economy? It is better to use your own advantages to attract wealthy people to consume and achieve the purpose of economic development.

2-2: Profits are large enough to drive illegal activities

When the profit margin is large enough, illegal activities will be repeated. That's what hunting elephants is like.

A poacher can earn US$3 per kilogram of ivory sold, which is much higher than the local average daily income.

In the Bangui market, ivory earns about US$26 per kilogram. Smoked elephant meat brings $10.90 per kilogram, far more than any other kind of meat, including beef or pork. A jungle elephant weighs between 2.2 and 2.7 tons and can produce 450 kilograms of meat. Poaching an elephant can make a profit of about $180 for the ivory and nearly $5,000 for the meat.

Poaching elephants becomes a more worthwhile risk than developing agriculture in poor areas of Africa. . . . . . Because high risk and high reward.

3. It doesn’t matter whether elephant meat is delicious or not. The key is that it is rare and valuable

3-1. If elephant meat is not delicious

Like I answered the question at the beginning, elephant meat is not tasty. In addition, the African cooking method is roasting and roasting and roasting. You can imagine how delicious food can be baked. So eating elephant meat is not just for the taste!

3-2. Elephant meat is a symbol of status

The only people who can afford elephant meat now are local tycoons or foreign investors. Due to the idea of ????trying to taste new things and being rare, elephant meat is not delicious, but it sells very well. Being able to eat elephant meat seems to make you even more powerful when you brag to others. It seems that people all over the world are pretty much the same. . . . . .

Finally, we are focusing on elephant meat. Africans will not eat elephants. Africans hunt elephants only to drive away elephants and prevent elephants from destroying farmland and causing harm to human gathering places. Otherwise, who would do such a thankless thing.

Elephant meat cannot be eaten for the following reasons

First, elephants can be infected with lentivirus BIV. If you don’t know about lentivirus, the famous HIV is definitely known. Although BIV is a specific virus, it is not uncommon for avian and swine flu to mutate and infect humans. The consequences of this retroimmunodeficiency virus are even more dire. BIV is found mainly in the blood and nervous tissue of elephants.

Secondly, sand fleas are parasitic on the skin of elephants, but they are not harmful to the thick skin of elephants. If people come into contact with them, the consequences of infection will be very terrible. Other non-contact infections such as eye worms, hookworms, etc. are not listed one by one.

The third elephant has accumulated a large amount of alkaloids in its internal organs due to food reasons (mainly low-toxic locust leaves and cohosh). If people eat it, it will cause Liver and kidney damage, after all, we are just omnivores and do not have as powerful digestive juices as lions and hyenas.

The fourth elephant has a strong memory and a strong sense of revenge. Who can withstand 6 tons of anger and damage?

The fat of the fifth elephant is saturated fat, and the muscles need to bear 6 tons of weight. How can it be delicious?

Seventh, I hope some people will keep the above points in mind, which apply to all protected animals. Eating wild animals cannot satisfy the desire for delicious food, but has many hidden dangers. Human beings should do it and cherish it!

The reality may be different from what you think. Africans really eat elephants.

The Central African Market in Nairobi, Kenya, provides all kinds of game you want. As long as you have money, you can buy the meat of monkeys, chimpanzees, antelopes and even elephants.

In Africa, poachers kill elephants, remove their tusks, and then set up fires to roast the elephants. As the population continues to grow, so does the demand for food, and elephants are considered a delicacy locally!

Most people consider international demand for ivory to be the biggest threat to elephants. But in fact, the reason why this largest land creature is endangered is not only because of her tusks, but also because of her flesh.

In the Bangui market, ivory earns about $26 per kilogram. Smoked elephant meat brings $10.90 per kilogram, far more than any other kind of meat, including beef or pork.

Jungle elephants weigh between 2.2 and 2.7 tons and can produce 450 kilograms of meat.

When an elephant is poached, the poacher can make a profit of about US$180 by selling the ivory, and nearly US$5,000 by selling the meat.

The picture shows buying smoked elephant meat at the market in Bangui, a country in Central Africa.

How can you expect people to think about protecting elephants if the country's healthcare system doesn't work properly and children don't receive formal education?

Do Africans eat elephants? Food!

I found a piece of news.

It is said that an elephant died on the roadside because of illness. Several Africans passing by saw it and called their companions. Then a group of people took the elephant meat Divided.

It only took an hour.

The photo is a bit bloody, so I won’t post it so much... If you are interested, you can search for that news. Elephant meat is actually not the main food of African people. Like in the news, they only divided the meat of elephants when they saw them dead on the roadside.

To eat elephant meat, you can only rely on people to hunt elephants with shotguns, which is difficult and risky. Moreover, African elephants are now protected animals and are not allowed to be hunted casually.

Many years ago, when there was no animal husbandry in Africa, people still needed to eat meat and ensure protein intake, so they hunted elephants and other wild animals. Animals eat meat.

But now that animal husbandry has developed in some parts of Africa, and it is easy and convenient to eat meat, who would risk their lives to kill elephants on charges of poaching! After all, poaching still exists. Elephant meat is also available in some African restaurants. The price is very high. It can also be bought from vendors selling prey in open-air markets, which is relatively cheaper.

But poaching is illegal in itself! ! As for the second question, is elephant meat delicious? Emmm, I haven't tried it, it's said to be not delicious.

Elephants have rough skin and thick flesh. They are extremely long-lived animals, with an average lifespan of sixty or seventy years. The meat tastes very old when you eat it. It may be difficult to chew it through grinding your teeth. . . .

Eating is a racial talent of us Chinese. In addition to studying cooking skills, we are also good at discovering ingredients that others dare not eat or do not like. Although it cannot be denied that sometimes many animals are on the verge of extinction because of our gluttony. Recently, Guangdong, a major foodie province, has been studying how Fujianese people make the most delicious food.

However, humans have eaten so many messy things for tens of thousands of years, why not eat elephant meat?

As the largest mammal in the world, elephants mainly live in southern Asia and Africa. For example, Xishuangbanna in Yunnan, our country, is one of the habitats of Asian elephants.

The life span of elephants ranges from 50 to 70 years, and they weigh up to 2 tons. As endangered animals, their number in our country is not large, and they eat elephants. But it's illegal.

But in ancient times, the Chinese did eat elephants. In the Manchu-Han banquet, there is a dish called Xiangba, which refers to the trunk of the elephant.

It is said that the elephant’s trunk has well-developed muscle tissue, so it tastes better. However, other parts of the meat may not be as delicious. After all, elephants have a long growth cycle and can live to be more than 60 years old on average, so the taste will be very old.

In Africa, the elephant is a very sacred and respected animal. Generally, local residents will not prey on it no matter how hungry or poor they are. Unless they encounter an elephant that has died of illness on the grassland, the locals will cut up their meat.

People focus on elephants mainly to hunt for their teeth. Many wealthy people especially like to buy various accessories made of ivory, such as ivory carvings, bracelets, etc. Buddhist beads. But an elephant that loses its teeth will die quickly in the wild.

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I am Sasha, let me answer.

Before the spread of hunting rifles, Africans rarely hunted elephants.

It’s not that Africans don’t want to hunt, the main reason is that it’s difficult to hunt elephants.

Elephants are large, have thick skin, and run fast, so they can only be hunted with long-range weapons.

Many people think that elephants are bulky. In fact, the maximum speed of an adult male elephant when angry is 40-50 kilometers per hour. The highest instantaneous speed of human running, the human world champion, is 44 kilometers. Normally, if a human is attacked by an elephant within 200 meters, it is almost impossible to survive.

However, if the weapon is a powerful one and is too close to the elephant, the hunter will be in great danger.

If you use a bow and arrow, although the distance is longer and the hunter is safer, it is less powerful and often only angers the elephant.

Africa has many products and many prey to kill, so there is no need to risk hunting elephants.

Moreover, elephants have high intelligence. Once they are hunted by humans, they will have memories and will actively attack humans.

I really can’t afford it.

But with the shotgun, it's different.

But in the past, Africans hunted elephants mainly for their tusks and skins, which are very valuable.

As for elephant meat, it is very unpalatable. It tastes like chewing gum and is rough, making it difficult to swallow.

Poachers usually take away the tusks and parts of the skin, leaving the elephant meat to rot in the wild.

Later, the population exploded, and some African tribes also began to hunt elephants for meat.

But generally speaking, elephant meat is sold to wealthy people as special meat. One theory is that elephant meat is an aphrodisiac.

In the Congo, 1 kilogram of elephant meat can be sold for $5, which is equivalent to five times the daily income of local people. In Central African countries, it can even be sold for 12 US dollars per kilogram. Poaching an elephant and selling the meat can yield a profit of nearly $5,000.

These meats eventually became the delicacies of dignitaries.

However, after all, there are still very few people who eat elephant meat.

Elephants are killed mainly because of their tusks.

Elephant meat in the Congo is even more expensive than beef, and only local dignitaries have the opportunity to come into contact with elephant meat.

Human eating culture is really difficult to describe. Birds and beasts, as long as they are animals, may be put on the dining table. In order to satisfy their hunger, human beings have invented a variety of cooking methods, especially the ancient Chinese, whose dietary skills have reached the pinnacle.

However, most people eat common animals, such as chickens, ducks, fish, sheep, etc. In order to satisfy their curiosity, a few people are willing to try special animals, such as pangolins, bats, four-legged snakes, etc. Bacteria and viral organisms cannot escape their mouths. As for the more common herbivores like elephants, their meat quality may not be as good as that of cattle and sheep, but at least it is safer, so they are included in people's diet.

I saw men, women and children carrying knives, pots and pans, quickly came to an elephant that died unexpectedly, and began to dismember the elephant carcass, which only took less than a month. By the time he was young, the elephant's remains were reduced to a bare skeleton. Some of the tribesmen came back with loads of elephant meat, some even set up simple stands and began to barbecue, and some hungry people even ate it raw.

This way of eating is more vigorous and has certain risks. Elephants crawl around in the grassland, and grass stems and leaves are their main food source. Although they like water, they can only get the chance to clean themselves in the rainy season because of the obstruction of crocodiles, hippos and other local snakes in the grassland ponds, and their skin will be contaminated in daily life. Various bacteria and parasites appear inside the skin and flesh. If eaten raw, it will inevitably cause the infection of viruses and even the outbreak of plague.

Living elephants are the patron saints of the African grasslands. People from grassland tribes will not hunt elephants easily, but dead elephants often become gifts from nature, and local residents eat them. There is no more burden.

Due to unique cultures, food shortages and numerous wild animals, many places in Africa are rich in a variety of "delicacies from the mountains and seas".

Visitors can encounter crocodile meat, giant snails, monkey meat, and even lion meat and elephant meat in the wet market. Since poaching is difficult to ban, elephant meat often flows into the market. There are also curious tourists in the restaurant who want to try some elephant meat. In the end, elephant meat is more expensive than beef.

Seeing this, many friends may find it difficult to accept that elephants were the staple food of prehistoric humans. Since ancient humans had no reliable food source and had not even formed the habit of raising pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock in captivity, hunting in the wild was the only way to obtain food. And elephants, animals that are large, clumsy and have a lot of meat, naturally became the first choice.

Scientists discovered a large number of elephant bones at a site 780,000 years ago, and there were even hunting and slaughtering tools next to them. Among the elephant fossils somewhere in Germany 400,000 years ago There are a lot of gnawing marks, which scientists use to determine that prehistoric humans had the habit of eating elephant meat.

Today’s elephants only include Asian elephants and African elephants. Asian elephants are mainly distributed in Southeast Asia and the Yunnan region of my country. However, elephants once spread all over the Central Plains, but due to being hunted many times, they gradually became less common. 's became extinct.

"It's worthy of roasting." Zhou Qufei of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote in "Lingwai Daida": "The trunk of elephant meat is the most beautiful, so people often eat elephant trunks." According to records, the elephant's trunk has nearly 150,000 muscle bundles. It is the most active organ in the elephant's body. It is not surprising that it is known as a delicacy.

Of course, there are other records of eating elephants. Unfortunately, because there are relatively few grasslands and forests in the plains, and the scope of human activities is relatively large, the elephants’ living space was squeezed, and they eventually disappeared completely. .

Elephant meat is indeed unpalatable, with more fiber and a rough texture. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", elephant meat tastes salty and sour. Although it is used in some traditional Chinese medicine, it is really not suitable for consumption. At least the taste is not as good as that of common animals such as pigs, cattle, and sheep.

As herbivores, it is not uncommon for elephant meat to be eaten. Unfortunately, the cost of breeding elephants is relatively high and their reproductive capabilities are poor. Almost no one is willing to invest in this animal. It tastes bad and is difficult to raise. Naturally, no one eats elephant meat anymore.

Currently, elephants are protected animals and no country in the world is allowed to kill them. However, poaching has been repeatedly banned, causing the number of elephants to decrease. Don’t eat elephants or use ivory products. Start with me and protect elephants. Only in this way can we prevent elephants from disappearing from the earth.