Not even an alpha male would risk challenging a bull elephant with a heightened level of testosterone. Or so I thought. An elephant in musth is looking for a mate with such singularity of ...

It is suspected that the elephant was a male bull in musth —characterized by aggressive behavior and high testosterone levels. A Saudi tourist was trampled to death by an elephant when he left ...

At very close range, Ian was able to get off one shot before the bull killed him," the statement said. The elephant was understood to be in musth, which means the bull had a surge of testerone and ...

We’ve never seen that before. So we’re hoping to shed some new light on musth. A bull elephant at a water hole in Etosha National Park. Males jockey for position and fight for access to the ...

The giant animal then turned its attention to a police van on the road, which reversed as quickly as it could to get out the way.

NAME:Loxodonta africana, the African elephant. THE ADVANTAGES OF AGE ... bull has a greater chance of producing a calf than a bull not in musth. AND THIS MEANS?: Longevity might be bred into ...

Meanwhile, in a letter to the State Chief Wild Life Warden, Thrissur-based Heritage Animal Task Force alleged that the elephant, owned by K.B. Ganesh Kumar, MLA, was in ‘musth’. “The ...

Currently, the state has 341 bull and 48 cow elephants ... of vital organs. During musth, owners and mahouts administer various medicines to suppress the elephant’s natural mating drive.