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Detailed explanation-1: -The African Savanna (Bush) elephant is the world’s largest land animal – with adult males, or bull elephants, standing up to 3m high and weighing up to 6, 000kg on average.

Detailed explanation-2: -The largest elephant on record was an adult male African savanna elephant. He weighed about 24, 000 pounds (10, 886 kilograms) and was 13 feet (3.96 meters) tall at the shoulder! Most elephants don’t get that large, but African elephants do grow larger than Asian elephants.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elephants have evolved to be larger so they can escape being preyed on by other animals, such as leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, and individual lions. Being larger allows prey to ‘escape’ from predation because they are too large to fit easily in a predator’s mouth and too large to be easily killed.