Presently in Zim it is not legal to shoot the cow plus the calf, so great effort and much time is spent trying to find tuskless cow ele without a calf or with a non-dependent calf. From a population control standpoint, shooting the calf would make good sense.

However, as one of the reasons for shooting tuskless cow ele is elimination of the tuskless gene, perhaps the calf should be shot on that basis alone.