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An Asian elephant bull chained during musth, with discharge from the temporal glands. Musth or must (from Persian, lit. 'intoxicated') is a periodic condition in bull (male) elephants characterized by aggressive behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones. It has been known in Asian elephants for 3000 years but was only ...
Periods of musth are short and sporadic in young bulls up to 35 years old, lasting a few days to weeks. Older bulls are in musth for 2–5 months every year. Musth occurs mainly during and following the rainy season when females are in estrus. [48] Bulls in musth often chase each other and are aggressive towards other bulls in musth.
African elephants are members of the genus Loxodonta comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant ( L. africana) and the smaller African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ). Both are social herbivores with grey skin. However, they differ in the size and colour of their tusks as well as the shape and size of their ears and skulls .
Indian elephant bull in musth. Adult males enter a state of increased testosterone known as musth. In a population in southern India, males first enter musth at 15 years old, but it is not very intense until they are older than 25. At Amboseli, no bulls under 24 were found to be in musth, while half of those aged 25–35 and all those over 35 were.
The African forest elephant ( Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West Africa and the Congo Basin. It is the smallest of the three living elephant species, reaching a shoulder height of 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in). As with other African elephants, both sexes have straight ...
The Indian elephant is a cultural symbol throughout its range in Asia and appears in various religious traditions and mythologies. The elephants are treated positively and are sometimes revered as deities, often symbolizing strength, wisdom and good fortune. [ 36] It is revered as a form of Lord Ganesha in Hinduism.
Newly released images from an Indonesian zoo have animal lovers up in arms this week. The heartbreaking photos show Yani, a Sumatran female elephant, sobbing moments before she passed away on ...
The straight-tusked elephant ( Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene (around 781,000– 40/30,000 years ago). One of the largest known elephant species, mature fully grown bulls on average had a shoulder height of 4 metres (13 ft) and a weight of ...