Thick pads of rough skin tissue. This protects the elephant from rocks, bugs, and other things hiding in the dirt.
To protect them from thorns and rocks.
To prevent running shoes from rubbing the back of your heel, you can try wearing thicker socks, using heel pads or cushions, adjusting the lacing of your shoes, or trying different shoe styles that fit better.
For elephants? It's to cushion so that there is less strain on the bones, tendons and muscles. They're heavyweights.
they have spongy pads on the bottoms of their feet to protect them. they also have ears that radiate heat to keep them cool.
The left heel was Achilles week heel.
if you're talking about the 2ft long laces, they go around either the back of the ankle or heel and wrap to around the front of the pad and tie it.
Those things subject to friction, such as a heel in a pair of badly fitting shoes, a wheel bearing, a car tyre, an India rubber, break pads etc.
Pressure is exactly equal to force divided by surface area. If that fact is true it is because the whole elephants weight (force) is spread out over four feet of relatively large surface area. A womans weight is only on her two (smaller) feet. If she leans on the back of her high heels all the weight (force) shifts to the tiny points of the stillettos. To find out how much more pressure is on the stillettos, just take the weight divided by the approximate surface area of the high heel. But since elephants weigh up to 13000 pounds, about 100 times what a woman weighs the heels would need to be (since only two heels to an elephants 4 feet) about 50 times smaller than an elephants foot to get equal pressure so it seems possible.
Many of us get heal and heel confuse and BasicallyHeal means to feel betterWhile heel means the shoe heel or the foot
heel
The plural for heel is heels.
The homophone for "heel" is "heal."