Elephants are intelligent, social animals. No responsible hunter would wound game and then go off and abandon it. Of course, only a jerk would attack one elephant in a herd.
This portion of your post clearly demonstrates you are totally ignorant regarding hunting any large animal with a bow.
In order to educate you, killing an animal with a bow requires that one wait before tracking the animal in order to let the animal die peacefully. Immeidately tracking an animal shot with a bow, for the most part, would cause much stress and the animal would run much farther than if left alone.
The reason is the injury from the arrow is virtually painless (like a bee sting, and the animal will run a very short distance, then lay down and die. (unless you push the animal immediately - then adrenaline kicks in and the animal will run a long way)
If you shoot an animal at dark, the best recourse is to either come back in several hours and track after dark, or, wait until the next morning. I would think that tracking an animal after dark in Africa is quiet a dangerous proposition.
Most animals hunted with a bow are intelligent, social animals.
You assume she fired the arrow in darknes, that is not what she posted.
You also appear to have never seen an elk or whitetail deer hunt, where the hunter has to wait for a clear shot at his/her target which is in a group.
You are also making assumptions that the meat from this animal was wasted.
You might want to engage your brain, rather than your emotions next time. Unless of course you are some sort of animal-rights, anti-hunting moron, and then you won't be able to engage your brain. (The tenor of your post suggests that you are the latter.)
“Virtually painless”?
Did you volunteer to test that theory out?
“Dying of dehydration is euphoric.”
“Unborn babies don’t feel pain when ripped limb from limb.”
Nice, educated and reasonable post.....
Just out of curiosity, wouldn’t allowing the body to sit out all night in the heat, undressed, cause the meat to be tainted? My husband hunts deer (bow, shotgun and muzzleloader) and he once hit a deer but it wasn’t a killing shot. He tracked it slowly (not chasing) for hours because he said if he didn’t, he’d never find it the next day, or if it laid out all night, the meat would be ruined because it was an extremely warm Sept. that year.
(He did find it and field dressed it but it was Labor Day and no butcher shops open - and we didn’t have the equipment necessary to do it ourselves. Our neighbor owns a general store and offered to let us hang it up in his huge walk in cooler out back...but he neglected to leave a note for the lady who opened the store for him in the AM!)