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.

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 ...

Indunil N. Pathirana, Chandana Rajapaksa, Noritoshi Kawate, Anuradha Wimalarathne, Lakshitha Fonseka, Priyangika Nilmini Weerakoon, Minhaj A. Hannan, Basil Alexander, Anil Pushpakumara, Siril ...

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 ...

An elephant in musth is looking for a mate with such singularity of purpose that he hardly takes the time to eat or drink. He engages in exaggerated displays of aggressiveness such as curling the ...

For the first time in Sri Lanka, a concrete enclosure reinforced with thirty tons of wire has been constructed to care for elephants during their musth period at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.