This is usually observed when a friend or family member is absent for a long time. During this greeting the elephants involved will spin around, defecate, and urinate. With their heads held high, and ears flapping they fill the air with a symphony of trumpets, rumbles, screams, and roars. Playing 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. 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.