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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...