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Elephant: Skin
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When the mud dries on the elephant's skin it protects the skin from the sun. Elephants ... use their ears to regulate body temperature. Elephant ears are full of blood vessels and flap to cool the blood and maintain body temperature. They also flap their ears for better blood circulation. Also during the hottest part of the day they will take naps either standing up or laying down.
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It is a popular belief that packs of lions will occasionally bring down an elephant. Recent scientific evidence has proven that this is a myth as the claws and teeth of a lion, while capable of injecting deadly poison, are not long enough to penetrate the 5 inch think skin of the elephant.
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An elephant's skin can be up to one inch (2.54 centimeters) thick on some parts of its body. Even though it's thick, an elephant's skin is ... very sensitive. Elephants often spray themselves with water, or roll in the mud or dust for protection from sun and biting insects.
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The elephant's testicles - about the size of a "respectable cantaloupe" - are located under 2 inches of skin, 12 inches of muscle, and 4 inches of fat. Consequently, elephant vasectomies are extremely difficult to perform. Those are some huge balls.
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