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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cape Town - Big game hunting has been put under the spotlight after a professional hunter and guide was trampled to death, while tracking an elephant bull in musth. News of Ian Gibson's death was ...

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 ...

According to the ol’ Wikipedia, musth is “periodic condition in bull elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior, accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones – testosterone levels ...

It is suspected that the elephant was a male bull in musth —characterized by aggressive behavior and high testosterone levels. A Saudi tourist was trampled to death by an elephant when he left ...