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What is a musth?

What is a musth? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness and often secrete leaking temporin from the sides of their heads.
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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.
Treviso coach Franco Smith musth have given his side a rollicking at half time, and they came out for the second half with much more fight in their bellies.
During sexually active periods, known as musth, males spend much of their time searching for mates.
What was it the Mahometan syce the musth elephant killed at Bhurtpore said about his wife?
Packy's treatment was interrupted when he went into musth, a sexually aggressive period, and he stopped cooperating.

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