Turkeys? Recreational Value of Elephants

The following passage from one of my writer correspondents,

"...left a long trail behind him, stretching all the way to the coast,
of huge, ballooning corpses, inflating in the sun and splitting their
skin like soft fruit: bewildered hippos left to feed the jackals and the
ubiquitous vultures, water buffalo no longer blinking away the swarming
flies from their beady, short sighted eyes, elephants raising their
clumsy legs skyward to accommodate the hyenas who crawled about inside
their carcasses to tear at the choicest organs and fight over the
scraps. He would discharge his huge gun daily and tally his kills on the
back pages of his journals according to the date and their type with the
same sort of careful accounting one might expect from serial rapists and
financial statisticians." Gareth Penner