This cooling strategy has even influenced elephant evolution. The African elephant has the largest ears of any species ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

MELBOURNE – Elephants trumpeted, touched trunks and flapped their oversized ears upon reuniting with their herd after a complex, five-day move from an urban Australian zoo to a much larger enclosure.

Elephants have massive ears to help regulate their body temperature. They have huge blood vessels in their ears. The blood vessels are large and quite visible on the backs of the elephant’s ears. The ...