Do elephants eat?

The elephant is the largest land animal on the planet. Majestic and calm, they are symbols of such countries as Sri Lanka and Thailand. Unfortunately, the number of elephants is constantly decreasing, so they are listed in the Red Book.

Do elephants eat people, do they kill them for food? A hundred years ago a man basically hunted for these animals for the sake of huge tusks and ornaments from them. People came from all over the world to get a trophy from elephant tusks on safari. Meat of an elephant Europeans for a long time considered insipid. Traditionally, they were fed only by the indigenous population of Africa, which is not surprising, because one prey could feed about 4 thousand hungry people at the same time. The carcass was eaten immediately after the hunt in fresh or smoked (salty) form after special treatment.

Do people eat elephant meat in other countries? In South Africa, Thailand and other Asian countries recently such food is considered a delicacy, and the correctly prepared tip of the trunk is a good aphrodisiac. Today elephant meat is quite legal in restaurants preparing all kinds of dishes from canned food to steaks, anyone can try them. In some localities only animals that died natural death are eaten.

Elephants disappear after their extinctrelatives - mammoths. In addition to humans, these large animals have virtually no enemies. Do other elephant animals eat elephant meat? In nature, only the elephant becomes a victim of claws and fangs of predators. Babies who are less than 2 years old are the desired prey of lions, crocodiles, leopards, and rarely hyenas.