Thursday, May 20, 2010

Any animal other than elephant, has got fan like ears?

If you mean ear size compared to the size of body,


You could try this





Fennec Fox


http://www.juliesjungle.com/pictures/fen...


http://www.free-picture-graphic.org.uk/i...





Rabbits


http://www.flickr.com/photos/delibelli/2...





Or some "fan-like displays", not the ears though.


Frilled Lizard


http://www.1uptravel.com/destination-spe...


http://www.brucemeans.com/around_world_p...





Hope this helps... =)

Any animal other than elephant, has got fan like ears?
I assume you're asking about the *size* of the ears more so than the outline shape, right?





If so, elephants' large ears are adaptations to cooling them, but not really as fans blowing air back along their bodies. What they really do is carry relatively hot blood out into the ears where the blood is waved back and forth through comparatively cooler air. This cools the blood before it's returned to the body significantly.





The reason they do this is that we (all of us) make heat in the tissues of our body (i.e., the volume of your body is a good measure of possible heat production), but we lose heat (stay cool) through the surface areas of our skin. The bigger you are in terms of volume (mass), the lower the relative surface area available for radiating heat. So elephants tend to accumulate heat. In contrast, small animals like mice tend to get cold relatively easily.
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