Why do Elephants Have Large Ears?

It's been almost three months since Arunn, in the comments to this post, promised to write a post about the thermoregulatory function of big, flappy elephant ears. Finally, he's gotten to it, and now you can go and read his post. A perfect entry for the next edition of Panta Rei, which needs your entries ASAP.

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Good to see you do remember what I wrote in the past and do follow up. Thanks for that excellent post of yours then, which set me to write this one... ;)