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The elephants' use their long tusks to strip of bark from trees, digging in the dirt and as a resting place for their trunks. Elephants also have their long trunks to suck up gallons of water and to reach the leave in the high trees. Their ears help them hear predators in the distance.

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Elephant need not keep themselves warm because they mostly live in areas which are hot so they need to keep themselves cool.

They keep themselves cool in many ways

  • Spending a lot of time in water holes
  • Staying in the shade of large trees during the peak heat of the day
  • Using their ears which are full of blood vessels and by flapping them constantly they help cool down their blood
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Yes. Anytime you can increase surface area of a body part, you can more easily dissipate heat through it, and live in a hotter, drier climate. When you feel cold, you curl up into a ball, and when you're hot, you spread out, right? You're decreasing and increasing your own exposed surface area in order to help control body temperature.

Rabbits for instance that live in colder climates have somewhat smaller ears than those that live in deserts, for the same reasons. In ears, blood vessels are very close to the surface, so cooling that blood there allows the entire body to cool off. Elephants may also use their ears to actively fan their bodies.

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by flapping their ears or washing wiith water.

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As the ears flap in the breeze, blood is cooled that runs inside the ear flap. The ears are thin enough to allow the blood to cool inside.

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== == Any animal that maintains a normal body temp. does, however I'm not sure how they do it. I'm sure that it would be the same as anything else.

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its big feet to keep it supported and its trunk to bathe its self

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large ears increase surface area so that more heat is lost by radiation

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it's ears i guess

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