This interesting Instagram account shares the observed behaviours common to all/most #Elephants. This video documents #FloppyRunning •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. •. This is a #repost @elephantvoices via @PhotoAroundApp *Turn your sound on!* From our upcoming Elephant Ethogram: A Library of African Elephant Behavior - to whet your appetite 🙂 Floppy-Running: An elephant, or elephants, ‘running’ with a loose, floppy gait, shaking a lowered head from side-to-side, letting ears flap against the neck and curling the tail up. Floppy-Running is often associated with trumpeting - in particular Pulsated-Play-Trumpets and Nasal-Play-Trumpets.🐘 Elephants Floppy-Run when they are playfully excited. This example shows an aggregation of elephants coming in from Amboseli’s Olodare area. At the road one of the elephants may have gotten frightened by a tourist vehicle, but that quickly transformed into an excuse for Floppy-Running en masse - adults and young alike. Several engage in Pulsated-Play-Trumpets. To the untrained eye it can look rather alarming, but we can assure you that they were just being silly and having fun. 🐘 • Want to learn more about elephant behavior? Visit our website www.elephantvoices.org or click the link in our bio. 🐘 • #elephantvoices #theelephantethogram #saveelephants #worthmorealive #endangered #ivorybelongtoelephants #awareness #stopthetrade #knotonmyplanet #wildlife #bekindtoelephants #killingisnotconservation #conservation #stoptrophyhunting https://www.instagram.com/p/BwwJM0SAtL9/?igshid=bekvy05381f0