The fourth in Auel's series has mammoths in considerable detail and the human characters getting inspired. Maybe some mammoth roleplay if you squint and this is me resisting flipping through to confirm...
The wording of the mammoth's activities is strongly borrowed from Cynthia Moss' non-fiction Elephant Memories.
Mammoths
The wording of the mammoth's activities is strongly borrowed from Cynthia Moss' non-fiction Elephant Memories.