It made me very interested in this question - and this animal is in principle possible to cut? Well like any ordinary zombies?
For example, you can get from him well at least a piece of meat, that is …
and then you killed him and he - melted like the snows of yesteryear under the May sun.
Soviet film fairy tale about Little Red Riding Hood was one such hero, the wolf (wolves were already as many as two in one movie film), which is often said, and “if anyone tried to eat an elephant” (which spawned the catch phrase).
Here I am puzzled, such as “elephants” in general “edible”? though to nip off a piece. at least a lick what it tastes like. 
in fact, if you kill a rat with something that causes little damage, it is possible to cut the corpse of the rat and subsequently eat.
So, how can you still, “cook” our “elephant”?