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On average, up to 310 litres of air are respired per minute |
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The African elephant´s ears act as a heat radiator. Similar to a human sweating and a dog panting the elephant´s ears have large arteries and veins near the skin on the back of the ear that pump blood through a filter of networked capillaries as the ears fan. |
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Note: some statistics are from Benedict´s study of an Asian elephant reported in Elephants by K. Eltringham. A note of caution is that these statistics represent an immobilized elephant and thus can really only be used as a good representation. |
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Please click on a particular link to learn more about an internal system of the elephant |
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*The heart beating diagram was inspired from the similar set-up at the "Elephant Nature Conservatory" |
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