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    Musth or must (from Persian, lit. 'intoxicated') is a periodic condition in bull (male) elephants characterized by aggressive behavior and accompanied...
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    Elephant (section Musth)
    musth bulls win the majority of the time, even when the non-musth bull is larger. A male may stop showing signs of musth when he encounters a musth male...
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    bulls in musth. When old and high-ranking bulls in musth threaten and chase young musth bulls, either the latter leave the group or their musth ceases....
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    annual phenomenon known as "musth". This is a period where the testosterone level is up to 100 times greater than non-musth periods, and they become aggressive...
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    experience musth, a physical and behavioral condition that is characterized by elevated testosterone, aggression and more sexual activity. Musth also serves...
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    : 101  In male elephants, temporin is secreted more during the period of musth, a period of heightened sexual arousal and dominance behavior. Of note,...
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  • Madha Gaja Raja (/məðəˈɡədʒəˈrɑːdʒɑː/ transl. King of Musth Elephants) is a 2025 Indian Tamil-language action comedy film written and directed by Sundar...
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    male elephants showed the presence of phenol and 4-methylphenol during musth. It is also one of the chemical compounds found in castoreum. This compound...
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    testosterone levels in tusks indicating that adult males experienced periods of musth like modern elephants, where they entered a state of heightened aggression...
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    similar to musth found in living elephants. These traits are suggested to be inherited from the last common ancestor of elephantimorphs, with musth-like behaviour...
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    secretion examination showed the presence of phenol and p-cresol during musth in male elephants. It is one of the very few compounds to attract the orchid...
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  • 1962. He and two co-workers attempted to investigate the phenomenon of musth in elephants by dosing Tusko, a bull elephant at the Lincoln Park Zoo in...
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    largely solitary lives plus entering phases of aggression similar to the musth exhibited by modern elephants. Mammut achieved maximum species diversity...
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  • dissertation on the sexual and aggressive phenomenon of musth in male elephants, entitled, Musth and male-male competition in the African elephant. In the...
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    erectile tissue structure called the accessory corpus cavernosum. During musth, a male elephant may urinate with the penis still in the sheath, which causes...
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    Younger bulls often experience musth for a shorter period of time, while older bulls do for a longer time. When in musth, bulls have a more erect walk...
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    is observed in both African and Asian elephants and it is referred to as musth. Its meaning is derived from the Urdu word mast meaning intoxication. The...
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  • 13 to 31 days (average 23) Elephant: 16 weeks Wolf: 9 days Mating system Musth Neutering Progesterone-releasing intravaginal device Reproductive cycle...
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    that it is time to move to another spot. Musth rumble – distinctive, low-frequency pulsated rumble emitted by musth males (nicknamed the "motorcycle"). Female...
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    postal Suicide by cop List of rampage killers Osama bin Laden (elephant) Musth (in elephants) Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures Road rage Spree killer...
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    Palace and Bannimantap, by 45 minutes, despite going through periods of musth at the time. His choice as the carrier was confirmed by the organizers in...
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    needed] m-Cresol is a component found in temporal glands secretions during musth in male African elephants (Loxodonta africana). m-Cresol is a constituent...
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    animal trainers had little understanding of or experience with elephant musth, a period of late adolescence when juvenile bull elephants begin to transition...
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    molar. Jumbo's nightly rages were probably caused by toothache, rather than musth, as his keeper thought at the time. A post mortem photograph of Jumbo shows...
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  • his word!": 225  Burmese Days Chunee A Hanging George Orwell bibliography Musth Such, Such Were the Joys Runciman, David. Political Hypocrisy: The Mask...
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  • subsequently an increase in the hormones LH and FSH, which stimulate cyclicity. Musth – Condition in male elephants Rut (mammalian reproduction) – Mating season...
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  • conflict List of individual elephants Osama bin Laden in popular culture Musth "The animal was blamed for 14 deaths in the northeastern state of Assam...
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    experiences a period of heightened sexual and aggressive activity called musth, which is caused by the production of large quantities of testosterone....
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    Chaophraya Chaiyanuphap, and Ekathotsarot, Chaophraya Prap Traichak, were "in musth" and charged into the midst of the Burmese, with only a handful to Siamese...
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    feature indicates that, like bull elephants, male woolly mammoths entered "musth", a period of heightened aggressiveness. The glands are used especially...
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