This discrepancy is clearest in Asian elephants: Petersburg, "We now find that isn't true. This grievous loss led the elephant to target humans first as a threat, and then as a food source as her mental state deteriorated until she was finally killed and later dissected, revealing through DNA analysis that she had indeed consumed human flesh. The practice has been aided by China's State Forestry Administration SFA , which has issued licences for the manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical products containing elephant skin, thereby making trading legal. They have been used particularly for timber -carrying in jungle areas.