Musth is an annual, asynchronous, rut-like phenomenon observed in male elephants. We examined whether musth is a roving strategy, and whether musth provides a temporary advantage to young males ...

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 unpredictable.

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 hormones ...

Testosterone preserved in the tusks of male woolly mammoths reveal that they went through a seasonal change called musth, just like modern elephants do. Once they reach sexual maturity, male African ...

Perhaps Greg sensed a bull in musth. A male entering the hormonal state of musth is supposed to experience a kind of Popeye effect—the equivalent of downing a can of spinach—that trumps established ...

Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...

Elephant musth is a periodic condition in male elephants characterised by heightened testosterone levels, increased aggression, and the secretion of a thick, pungent fluid from their temporal glands.

Male elephants use infrasonic rumbles to signal group departures, revealing complex vocal coordination and strong social bonds. The bull elephants gather in the evening coolness to drink. After a ...

(KRON) — An elephant that’s spent two decades at Oakland Zoo will soon be reunited with other African elephants. The zoo announced Monday that “Osh,” a 30-year-old male elephant, will leave the zoo in ...