Near-musth

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Records about Near-musth from the Gajah Glossary at https://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/23-01-Glossary.pdf Near-musth: [see also: Musth, stages of; Inter-musth, pre-musth] Poole et al. 1984:259; Rasmussen et al. 1984:354,358; Poole 1987:295) Period immediately before and after full-musth, when testosterone levels may be partially elevated and some--but not all--of the manifestations of full-musth are seen. When shown by young males, it may be called Juvenile-musth. Mahouts call it Hten Musth (N4cGaughey 1 963: 1 05).

M. Philip Kahl and Charles Santiapillai, Gajah Elephant Glossary, Gajah nr 23 (2004), Journal for Asian Elephant Specialist Group

Reference list Koehl, Dan, (2025). Near-musth. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 September 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/index.php?id=139. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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