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An elephant's ears have three main purposes:

1. Keep the elephant cooler in hot weather by flapping them. Because their blood vessel are close to the surface, when flapping their ears, the slight breeze cools their blood a little, thus recirculating cooler blood back into their bodies.

2. Obviously, an elephant's ears are for hearing.

3. Finally, when threatened or aggressive, elephants hold their ears out stiffly to the side of the heads and fan them to make themselves look even bigger than they are. This is a display that not only warns other animals, but is meant to intimidate and frighten other aggressors.

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