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African elephants live in a hotter climate than indian or asian elephants. Since elephants don't sweat they flap their ears to cool the blood vessels down as much as 10

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The Asian elephant has smaller ears because in Asia there are more trees to keep shade but in Africa there are less trees so the African elephant has to keep cool by swaying his or her ears back and forth to make a breeze.

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elephants have big ears to flap insects around them

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Elephants have big ears to flap them to keep them cool. !
it uses them to cool themselves by flapping them back and forth, and for hearing.

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if the place is hot the open grassy area to lose heat

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The large thin ears provides a favorable surface area to volume ratio. Elephants pump their ears full of blood to dissipate heat.

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No the Indian elephant has small ears

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