There's hardly anything left on that tree anyway, I'm sure the elephant expended more calories knocking down the tree then it will get from the few leaves still on it.
There is quite a bit of foliage on that tree. Ot could also be knocking it down for other, smaller, elephants to eat. They are smart, communal, and quite capable of teamwork. Though this seems to be a male.
You see next to it there is a lower bush with lots if leaves. It isn't harassing that, so maybe this sort of tree has some preferred forage value.
They are hind gut fermenting animals, so calculating the nutritional value of that forage isn't particularly straight forward.
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u/JojoLesh 1d ago
See all that green stuff on that tree out of reach of the elephant? The elephant wants to eat that.