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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 12:38:30 2020 No.11415997 View Reply Original Report

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What exactly causes musth in elephants? What causes them to suddenly get a huge spike in testosterone, and can it be reproduced in humans?

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2020 12:55:08 No.11416025 Report

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>>11415997
wtf is musth?

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2020 12:58:33 No.11416031 Report

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>>11416025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musth

>Musth or must /?m?st/ (an Urdu word, from Persian: literally drunk) is a periodic condition in bull (male) elephants characterized by highly aggressive behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones.

>Testosterone levels in an elephant in musth can be on average 60 times greater than in the same elephant at other times (in specific individuals these testosterone levels can even reach as much as 140 times the normal).[1] However, whether this hormonal surge is the sole cause of musth, or merely a contributing factor, is unknown.

>Scientific investigation of musth is problematic because even the most placid elephants become highly violent toward humans and other elephants during musth.

Basically roid rage

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2020 13:24:39 No.11416078 Report

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>>11415997
>mfw 30 year old virgin

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2020 13:27:27 No.11416083 Report

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>>11415997
Elephants that are more aggressive during mating season were better able to reproduce.

They kept getting naturally selected until we have what we see today.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2020 23:02:21 No.11417445 Report

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>>11416083
>Although it has often been speculated by zoo visitors that musth is linked to rut, it is unlikely there is a biological connection because the female elephant's estrus cycle is not seasonally-linked, whereas musth most often takes place in winter. Furthermore, bulls in musth have often been known to attack female elephants, regardless of whether or not the females are in heat.

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2020 23:07:32 No.11417453 Report

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>bulls in musth have often been known to attack female elephants
Based, all women are whores

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Anonymous Tue 25 Feb 2020 23:22:58 No.11417499 Report

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