While sipping tea one morning and enjoying the expansive view of a water hole from my 25-foot-tall research tower, I could see a storm of epic proportions brewing. My colleagues, students, volunteers ...

Ancient Hindu poetry describes the arrival of bees to “gather sweetness from the temples of [young] musth elephants” 5. In keeping with this poetic observation, we were struck by the powerful ...

“Musth,” an annual ordeal which turns male elephants into oozing, aggressive pachyderms, appears to have also affected male mammoths that lived thousands of years ago, according to a new study.

A seven-year study of Asian elephants from Nagarahole-Bandipur, a population centred around the Kabini region, yields interesting patterns of male elephant behaviour when in musth. Hormonal levels ...

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The trained bull elephant from Dudhwa, Gajraj, that became musth and was undergoing treatment at the abandoned rubber factory near Bareilly city was finally shifted back to the tiger reserve in ...

A dozen forest officials and 20 Gajabandhus have been on their toes round the clock for past three days in the dense forests of Athgarh, about 65 km from here, to save a musth tusker from suspected ...

Jorhat, Oct. 30: When in musth, even friends turn into deadly foes. The Kaziranga National Park lost two domesticated adult male jumbos within a span of four days, with one succumbing to his injuries ...