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    Discover how elephants defy biological expectations by growing to car-stacking proportions while eating proportionally less than smaller animals, thanks to evolutionary adaptations in metabolism and heat regulation.

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    The trunk and the large size evolved together, each making the other more advantageous; the trunk made being big more efficient, and being big made having a trunk more necessary.

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