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 ...

The animal kingdom is full of sexual competition, and extinct creatures are no exception: Researchers found evidence that male woolly mammoths experienced hormone-induced states of aggression towards ...

IPOH: Kelat, the Malaysian male elephant at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan, was temporarily separated from his companions Dara and Amoi after entering musth, a natural hormonal phase in adult male ...

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