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African elephant's ears are 42 in. (107 cm) in diameter. Indian elephants have smaller ears.
They keep the elephant cool. Elephants' ears are thin-skinned and rich in blood vessels. The ears of some African elephants are nearly 2 meters long and almost as wide, much bigger than those of Indian elephants. When an African elephant waves its ear flaps, it can lower the temperature of the blood flowing within them by as much as 5 degrees Celcius. Indian elephants are essentially creatures of shady forests. They don't have to endure the high temperatures that African elephants encounter on their sunburnt grasslands, so they do not need such large ears.
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Why do elephants have long big ears?
elephants have big ears to flap insects around them
Why Do Elephants heve big ears?
Elephants have big ears to cool them selves down.
Animals with big ears?
Elephants have big ears.
Why do African elephants have big ears?
African elephants have big ears, because they can cool themselves down, by waving their ears. They have big ears for communication
Which Elephants have big ears?
African Elephants
How do you say in simile for ears?
Your ears are as big as an elephants .
Do elephants have big ears?
Yes of course elephants are grey
Why do Indian elephants have small ears?
The African elephants need their bigger ears to help keep them cooler in the heat. Other elephants do not need such big ears.
How long are the African elephants ears?
big
Why very big ears could be a disadvantage for elephants living in a dense forest?
Very big ears can be a disadvantage for elephants living in a dense forest because they can get caught in the foliage of the forest. Forest elephants have developed to be smaller then other African elephants and their ears are more rounded.
Why do Asian Elephants have smaller ears?
this is my answer: some elephants live in dense forest and if the elephants' ears are very big, the ears will obstruct its movement through the dense forest
Why do elephants use their big ears?
Elephants have big ears to flap them to keep them cool. !it uses them to cool themselves by flapping them back and forth, and for hearing.
