Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1907 — Largs Ears of Forest Animals. [ARTICLE]

Largs Ears of Forest Animals.

Within the limits of particular groups large ears may be taken, as a rule, to indicate either great powers of hearing or the necessity of catching every wave of sound. Thus, forest dwelling animals generally have much larger, and especially broader, ears than their relatives inhabiting open country. An excellent instance of this is afforded by the okapi of the Semliki forest, as contrasted with the giraffe of the more open districts of Africa—the ears in the die case being excessively broad and leaflike, while in the other they are comparatively narrow and pointed. Similarly Grevy’s zebra, which inhabits scrub jungles in Somaliland and northeast Africa generally, has much larger and wider ears than the ordinary zebra of the open veldt.—Scientific American.