| Males in musth actively seek mating opportunities and become much more aggressive toward other bulls. |
| During sexually active periods, known as musth, males spend much of their time searching for mates. |
| Bull elephants are loners and regularly enter a testosterone-charged state called musth, which causes them to attack trainers and other elephants alike. |
| What was it the Mahometan syce the musth elephant killed at Bhurtpore said about his wife? |
| But at the age of 27 in 1900, he developed a condition called musth, in which raised testosterone causes aggression. |
| Introducing old males to the area stopped these behaviors, probably by suppressing musth, a period when testosterone in males surges, Poole and others wrote in Nature. |
