Golah Su is now in musth! This is a hormone change (overload) in male elephants that happens once per year and can last anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. When an elephant goes into musth it is not unlike “roid rage”- their hormones go into overdrive and they have the potential to become very dangerous. Each year in Thailand there are many incidences with bull elephants (both wild and domesticated) going into musth and injuring/killing people and causing a lot of damage. During this time, for th

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You may have heard about elephant musth before, and may even know that it relates in some way to bull elephants and mating… But there’s much more to it than that. What exactly is ‘musth’? Musth is a biological condition affecting all adult male elephants (also known as bull elephants) that occurs for 2-3 months each year. During this period bull elephants secrete a significant amount of a hormone-rich substance called temporin from their temporal glands on either side of their foreheads, which i