A period in which male elephants display aggressive and dominant behaviour.
1Males in musth display all the symptoms you complain of, and more.
2It was high summer, and in a few weeks he would go into musth.
3When a musth male is vocalizing, the whole herd of females will start to chorus.
4One of the younger bulls, Tiny Tim, has also come into musth since Hot Stuff's death.
5When a female was in estrus, or a male was in musth, the pitch of their voices lowered.
6Yet the bull mammoth's musth calls were actually extremely loud, deep-voiced roars; the female estrus call was even louder.
7He was the dominant bull of the population, whether in musth or not, and they knew where he was.
8But an elephant in musth rumbles constantly, announcing his desperate lust and aggressive anger to any elephant in earshot.
9Only another musth bull would try to face him, and only if he was close to the same size.
10Finally, as long as she stayed near the musth bull, the chestnut female could rest and feed without being chased.
11It is reported that the animal was in full musth, and had to be put down soon after the incident.
12Now, the bull was in musth-whichin Hindi means "madness." In musth, brainpower takes a backseat to hormones.
13Unlike the musth rumbles of males, these songs are lyrical and repetitive, throaty purrs that rise quickly and then trail off.
14When a bull is in musth, the amount of testosterone in his blood soars to levels fifty times higher than usual.
15Though any male past puberty could mate with a receptive estrus female, bulls were far more successful when they were in musth.
16Asian bull elephants are subject to musth, which lasts from a few weeks to several months and is marked by violent, unpredictable behavior.