The Elephant's Ears Are Like a Customized Air Conditioner

It's complicated because it is not just a function of size. Behavior plays a really large role in this as well, right? So we can say things like, you know, Allen's rule or Bergman's rule, which states that as you move farther north, you get generally larger animals. Oh, I never would have thought about that. Like, woolly mammoths were in Siberia and not just kicking it in Panama.

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