[jononomo]

That's because we hunted all the megafauna to extinction during the Pleistocene. Modern hunter gatherers live in the modern world.

[ianburrell]

The megafauna extinction was in the Americas. Human coexist with megafauna in Africa: elephant, giraffe, hippo, rhino.

Megafauna don't make much of diet of African hunter-gatherers cause they are a lot of work to hunt. They hunt smaller game. Gathering is much easier and safer.

[jononomo]

Elephants are easy to hunt — they turn toward you and easily fall into disguised holes. They’re now protected by governments, however.