Musth, a time of heightened testosterone levels and aggression in male elephants related to reproduction, has now been identified in woolly mammoth tusks. Remarkably, this is the first time ...

“Musth males are like testosterone machines,” says Lucy Taylor, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford who coauthored a new study on the phenomenon. They constantly drip strong ...

Musth, during which males experience dramatic surges in circulating testosterone 3,4, is characterized by a distinct posture, swollen and secreting temporal glands, urine dribbling, and increased ...

Poole quickly proved the animals were anything but, discovering that male African elephants experience reproductive cycles, called musth—something elephant biologists had long argued against.

Once a year, adult male Asian and African elephants go through musth, or a period when their reproductive hormone levels—including testosterone—surge, and they act more aggressive and ...

Researchers say traces of sex hormones extracted from the animal’s tusk provide the first direct evidence adult males experienced musth. This is a testosterone-driven episode of heightened ...

Ancient Hindu poetry describes the arrival of bees to “gather sweetness from the temples of [young] musth elephants” 5. In keeping with this poetic observation, we were struck by the powerful ...

A seven-year study of Asian elephants from Nagarahole-Bandipur, a population centred around the Kabini region, yields interesting patterns of male elephant behaviour when in musth. Hormonal levels ...

During mating season, bulls fall into ‘a periodic state of intensive testosterone-fueled sexual activity’ called ‘musth’. Randy older males become more active than junior males during this ...

Size seems to matter. Studies of African savannah elephants (Loxodonta Africana) in Amboseli, Kenya, have shown that larger males tend to win jousts, as do those in “musth.” Musth is an ...

"Carina and I were very nervous, because we could see the elephant was in musth," Somers continued. Musth is when bull elephants experience a rise in reproductive hormone and highly aggressive ...

Bhopal, Nov 3 (PTI) Forest officials in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday captured an elephant, believed to be in musth, in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve and said the big mammal had killed two men and ...