African tusker in ‘musth’, Delhi zoo seeks help to sedate it. Story by Jasjeev Gandhiok • 3mo. ... (NZP) has an African elephant about 29 years old and it is in ‘musth’.

Elephant Ear Waving Pascal comes out to wait for an approaching male. As he turns to head back to the swamp he is very close to our vehicle and musth-rumbles and ear-waves at us as he walks past.

But both male animals experienced big fluctuations of the hormone: The analysis of the African elephant’s tusk showed its testosterone levels increased to 20 times higher than normal during musth.

Osh, Oakland Zoo’s last male African elephant, made a long 46-hour road trip to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

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.

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 ...

African elephant populations have fallen from an estimated 12 million a century ago to some 400,000. In recent years, at least 20,000 elephants have been killed in Africa each year for their tusks.

Measuring 10 feet tall at the shoulder and weighing over 6 tons, Matt the African savanna elephant is one of the largest land animals on Earth. And though the pachyderm is as old as 52, he still ...

Reduced older male presence linked to increased rates of aggression to non-conspecific targets in male elephants. Proc R Soc B 288:20211374. Doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1374.