The Elephants of Chirisa

Finn Aagaard, a former Kenya PH who became a writer, admitted that he was at once fascinated by elephant hunting, and compelled to do it, but also saddened by it. “If you kill an elephant bull,” he said, “there’s a sense of loss among [the herd]. Someone is missing. ‘My God,’ they think, ‘Ed was killed yesterday.’”

Finn was not alone. This ambivalence is what Bob