
The Nature of Tears, Part 3
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Elephant Tears - What's the Difference?
With the elephant, other glands around the eye were essentially re purposed through evolution to provide moisture to the eye. There's a third eyelid gland which is found on other animals as well but in the elephant it's extremely well developed. And there are also some other teer cocktail differences with the elephant teers due to these changes. A they end up look like their crying because thegan their eyes don't have drainage canals. Their eyes just fill up and then it streams down the face. Sometimes there's even a foam due to the accumulation of sebum and mucus.
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