of body and head including trunk is 5.5???6.5 m (18???21 ft) with the tail being 1.2???1.5 m (3.9???4.9 ft) long.[4] The largest bull elephant ever recorded was shot by the Maharajah of Susang in the Garo Hills of Assam, India in 1924, it weighed 8 tonnes (8.8 short tons), stood 3.35 m (11 ft) tall at the shoulders and was 8.06 m (26.4 ft) long from head to tail.[8] There are reports of larger ind