Elephants are the largest mammals still living on earth today. The heaviest elephant is recognized as an elephant is shot down in Angola in 1974. It was a bull elephant, weighs 12,000 kg (26,400 pounds). The smallest elephants, with size to large calf or pig, is the prehistoric elephants lived on Crete until around the year 5000 BC, and probably to the year 3000 before the slumber. The skull remains, scattered by them, with the only big hole faucet features at the front, perhaps the basis of belief in the existence of the one-eyed giant (Cyclops) in Odyssey Homer.
The recent study of animal remains in central China shows that prehistoric elephant meat. Historically, the elephant is common to catch and use of elephants in Asia, particularly in African elephant ivory hunting is done by the Western colonial name and ivory is a bustling commercial commodities . Animal elephant is now protected, and the captivity as pet banned worldwide.
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