So Botswana recently approved the killing of 23 elephants for a celebration!

we are having a little political stuff because of trump and stuff

nice here, some states are lovely

@available4Oh don’t worry you should see what’s happening here…way worse. Nothing shocks me anymore.

@InterdimensionalSideEye why is taking them all from the same herd better? isn't that worse? do they eat the elephants? 😳

@GoFish yes they will eat them and share the meat for celebrations. They get terribly traumatised, they actually mourn their dead and form close bonds. The theory behind killing an entire herd leads to the idea that it’s less traumatising for them. It’s traumatising anyway but yeah. Also if elephants witnessed their herd members killed it could add to aggression down the line.

@InterdimensionalSideEye 😐