Males in musth actively seek mating opportunities and become much more aggressive toward other bulls. |
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During sexually active periods, known as musth, males spend much of their time searching for mates. |
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It ends with the animal protesting, after being chained during musth. |
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But at the age of 27 in 1900, he developed a condition called musth, in which raised testosterone causes aggression. |
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Packy's treatment was interrupted when he went into musth, a sexually aggressive period, and he stopped cooperating. |
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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. |
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Bull elephants are loners and regularly enter a testosterone-charged state called musth, which causes them to attack trainers and other elephants alike. |
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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. |
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