3 example sentences using musth.
Musth used in a sentence
Musth in a sentence as a noun
Furthermore, bulls in musth have often been known to attack female elephants, regardless of whether or not the females are in heat.
"...reintroducing older males into the elephant population of the area seems to prevent younger males from entering musth, and therefore, stop this aggressive behavior.
Evolutionary selection against musth?It feels like there's an analogous suspicion and fear of human men as well, similarly peaking for adolescent humans, like adolescent elephants, who are least able to self-regulate.
Musth definitions
noun
an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear; "the frenzied elephant was in musth"