why do horses like to chase and play with balls when they aren’t predators with a chase drive?

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why do horses like to chase and play with balls when they aren’t predators with a chase drive?

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For prey animals, play is a way for the young to practice fleeing from predators, fighting predators, or competing for mates. In social animals like horses play is also a way large groups bond. So a ball can be a good way to provide a single horse or small herd of horses a way to exercise their instinct for play.