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Why do elephants need to hear better then other animals?

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elephants need to hear better because they communicate* in a lower frequency which means we cant hear them communicate* but they need better ears so they can hear each other

*they communicate in low frequency drone's like bird tweeting except they are a lot lower and we cant hear them

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