Such displays of strength are not uncommon when a male (bull) elephant is in musth, a period of heightened, testosterone-driven aggression. A group of tourists had their brush with one hormonal ...

A well known Swahili proverbs observes, "when elephants fight, the grass suffers". It is a direct analogy to the human ...

Elephants can even recognize one another through these vibrations. Perhaps Greg sensed a bull in musth. A male entering the hormonal state of musth is supposed to experience a kind of Popeye ...

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping ...

Silently emerging from the shadows of the rainforest, the lone elephant stepped gently onto the rain-soaked earth, leaving deep footprints in the muddy ground. It paused to feed on a banana tree ...

It helps the veterinarian update any behavioural changes in elephants whether it is in musth (an aggressive state) period etc. “We place placards bearing elephant’s name next to the feed.

But the elephants that pose the most danger to humans are often rogue bulls, solitary male animals enraged during "musth", a period of heightened sexual activity when testosterone levels soar.