Elephants also have very close family ties. The surviving family members will openly mourn. They also have been known to recognize individual people after many years of separation. Killing these animals for "fun" or to make oneself feel macho is utterly immoral. When they really have to be culled due to lack of space and food, it should be done by professionals, with entire family groups taken out at the same time.
There's film footage of a cull done many years ago, by shooting from a helicopter. It's really horrible to watch as the elephants try to protect their younger family members, and get killed because they're on the outside of the protective huddle they've formed. Once the adults have fallen, the terrified youngsters on the inside are killed. They really had to be culled, as the herd had grown way to large for the preserve they were on to support them -- they would have begun starving. But we really need to find better ways of doing it, and better ways of controlling the reproduction of the herds.
I don't really have a problem with this. Call it unsportsmanlike, say it's not real hunting, but it's a pretty big reach to call it immoral. If the herd needs to be culled, why does it matter who does the culling? Would the elephant be any less dead if it was culled by a sharpshooter from a helicopter? At least this way some money was made (the park sold the elephant, the ranch paid to transport it, someone paid the ranch to shoot it). I hunt every chance I get, and I have no interest in taking part in a canned hunt. However, if I don't have a problem shooting a deer in the woods, how can I be against someone shooting a deer inside of a fence.
Just my opinion, donning flame proof suit.