Nature Animals Plants Geography on Instagram: "Follow @explainingthewild for the best nature, animal, planet, and geography content Meet the giant among giants: the World’s Largest Elephant Ever Recorded. This legendary animal was an adult male African bush elephant, and his sheer scale is almost unbelievable. The record-holder was a magnificent bull shot in Angola in 1974. His estimated standing height at the shoulder was an incredible 3.96 meters (13 feet)—taller than almost any single-story h