No it does not. There is no psychological distress involved. The animals made no choice. That gene appeared randomly from mutations, no elephant made a choice

No it does not. There is no psychological distress involved. The animals made no choice. That gene appeared randomly from mutations, no elephant made a choice to introduce it. Then evolutionary pressure, and more specifically in this case the fact that poaching is the biggest danger those elephants face, has made that gene spread across the population of elephants compared.