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A lone bull elephant rampaged through Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district for nine days, killing at least 20 people and injuring 15, mostly civilians, as forest officials and drones searched for the animal and residents fled their homes amid escalating human-elephant conflict.
An adult male elephant in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest belt has killed at least 13 people over the past week as authorities struggle with rising human-wildlife conflict. Officials say the animal is in musth and has shown violent, erratic behavior; about 80 personnel have been deployed and wildlife experts from nearby regions have been brought in to tranquilize and steer the elephant away from villages, with four of the dead being from a single family.
Traces of ancient hormones were found in the tusks of a male woolly mammoth that lived over 33,000 years ago, providing the first direct evidence that mammoths experienced musth, a testosterone-fueled period of heightened aggression and unpredictable behavior during mating season. The study, published in the journal Nature, revealed annually recurring testosterone surges up to 10 times higher than baseline in the mammoth tusk. The researchers believe their findings show that hormone records in teeth could contain key information that can last for thousands of years, especially when studying ancient populations.