Forest Department deploys kumkis to protect Coimbatore villages from wild elephants, including guarding Vellingiri Andavar ...

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 ...

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.

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

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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.

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each year. Community ...

but every year he would enter his “musth” period when his testosterone levels multiplied along with his aggression. The zoo shackled one of his legs to prevent him from rampaging, but he began showing ...