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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The field manager of the tour company involved in the incident said the elephant responded to tourists getting too close to take pictures Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

(She wanted to measure the urine's testosterone content to confirm her discovery that African elephants, like their Asian cousins, went through a sexually aggressive phase called "musth.") ...