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Elephants at Play:

Many accounts have been recorded on the fact that Elephants work with their environment and engage in games of throwing objects, twisting, and interacting with their characteristics. Typically, elephants begin a playing session by trumpeting. Elephants engage in solitary play as well as in group play. Typically, in many species playing behaviour is limited to the younger aged animals that are going through a stage of growth that involves a flexibility of behavour to prepare them for survival in the world. This type of playing involves elephants young and old--acting in expressions of personality-- having fun. A good exampe of this is recounted in the the book The Fate Of The Elephant. Douglas Chadwick records a story that Joyce Pool observed in the Amboseli Reserve. While she was winding up a string that was set down to mark out a vegetation study plot, elephants came indifferent to such feelings of fear, and shyness and had a blast. They started trumpeting, racing around. One elephant wound it around her trunk, and the other whirled it around winding it around all her four legs. They off they bounded into the bush playing, and taking the string with them.