Hey, Timi.
Most of the time when elephants find a place like this, they just like to hang around.
The ground is wet.
It's nice and playful.
So it's like, they come over together and group up.
And then you'll see some young ones - it gives a nice impression to the young ones also,
to lie down.
But before the young ones lie down, you can find there will be - there will be one adult
just lying down.
Just showing the baby that the place is nice, we can play, we can have some fun.
Ja.
You can see the mother will be close by the young one, will be digging the sand to loosen
up the ground to be more soft.
And playing.
Nice, lying down.
Throwing the sand, for elephants it's a habit.
It's more common that we really know that mostly when they're throwing the sand
it's for cooling off themselves, from the sun.
You know, when they put a lot of sand on their back, when the sun's come out and it's started
burning, then it would be burning on the sand and not the skin itself.
Then somehow there's a - there's a kind of a habit of playing to get prepared for when
the sun comes out.
But now we have got some mist.
So they're throwing the sand, I think they just get ready for when the sun comes out.
Ja, the elephants also, they've got a time for them to play.
Not always that they'll just be eating and eating and eating.
They can have their time to play, exercise each other.
Lying down, the young ones come and climb over their mothers.
And ja.
Look at what the mama's doing now - that's Tokwe.
She's playing with the baby.
So this is all to show the baby that the place is very comfortable.
It's not dangerous.
We can play.
There we go.
Especially for Tokwe.
She's the last one, that will wait the latest to do things.
You see the young one now is going around the big mama.
She's now using Tokwe's body to scratch herself.
Just the same as if they've been playing with the mud, they can go to the tree and scratch
themselves.
So the young one is now using the body of the mother to scratch herself.
Elephants, with soil, they have a big bond.
Because they have certain times when they use soil in different ways.
It's like, when it is warm, sometimes we see they put on themselves mud.
And when it is like this, they just like dry soil, to use it.
Don't know for what reason.
Mostly it's cold now, so they use the soil, maybe to warm them.
Because when they use mud, it's like we say, they are cooling themselves with mud.
So with soil, maybe they are just warming them up.
Sometimes when they're playing with soil like this, we see they take that soil and eat it also.
Ja.
For minerals.
They use it for many purposes.
Look at this one on that side.
Hi, Tokwe.
On the other hand, they are like they're gymming.
Ja no, it is a bit of a gym.
But I think also like, you know, scratching their bodies.
So like exfoliating.
Look at those two.
Mind the baby, Tokwe.
Don't sleep on the baby.
Just on top of her.
Goes "doof".
She is moaning.
I will laugh if she rolls down.
Yoh.
Yoo.
Wake up.
Uh-uh, easy.
Wake up, mama.
You're taking my place.
Hello, Pisa.
Pisa, Pisa.
Okay, Pisa.