What kind of a man gets his kicks from shooting a magnificent animal like this? http://t.co/EI8QnCJMU3

Three months after the killing of Cecil the lion, a German hunter has reportedly shot one of the largest elephants ever seen in Zimbabwe.

The elephant had reportedly never been seen before in the country's southern Gonarezhou National Park.

The Telegraph reported: "It was shot on October 8 in a private hunting concession bordering Gonarezhou by a hunter who paid $60,000 (£39,000) for a permit to land a large bull elephant and was accompanied by a local, experienced professional hunter celebrated by the hunting community for finding his clients large elephants."

The paper said that the hunt was refusing to name the man who had killed the elephant, but that he had "travelled to Zimbabwe to conduct a 21-day game hunt including the Big Five of elephants, leopards, lions, buffalo and rhinoceros."

As with Cecil's killing, there was an outcry on social media about the shooting of the elephant.