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Have you ever noticed how big an elephant's ears are? They're like giant flaps! Elephants' big floppy ears usually measure about 22 square feet in size. - Wow! Although you might think they use these giant ears for better hearing, elephants actually mostly use their big ears for cooling down when it's hot! Because elephants are so big and generally live in hot places like Africa or India, they need a little extra help when it comes to cooling off. Elephant ears are full of veins, the little passageways in the body that are responsible for moving blood around. By flapping their wet ears, the many veins in their ears are cooled, and so is the blood inside those veins! The cooled blood then travels all around the elephant, and can help lower the elephant's body temperature by as much as almost 10 degrees Fahrenheit! That might not sound like a lot, but when it comes to body temperature it's actually a pretty COOL amount!
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe African elephants need their bigger ears to help keep them cooler in the heat. Other elephants do not need such big ears.
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∙ 14y agoElephants have big noses because God made them like that.
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∙ 12y agothis 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
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∙ 13y agothey have big eyes because it helps them see better :)..x
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∙ 10y agoElephants have small eye so that there is less eye and less dust can be blown into them.
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∙ 13y agono they can come in black, brown, and blue
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∙ 13y agothey do have bad eye site but they have good scents of smell
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∙ 12y ago- Elephants do not have pointy ears they have long curve ears
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Elephant do not have pointy ears they have long
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