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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Male woolly mammoths turned into sex fiends when in heat, just like modern elephants do, a new study of ancient hormones preserved in the tusks of the extinct giants has revealed. By charting the ...