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