Musth is a periodic condition in male elephants characterized by aggressive behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones.

The image from the OOP is in the article. TL;DR, male elephants get crazy angry when they're horny you assert their dominance.

The rhinoceros beetle says “check this slab of HOT bug SEX sitting before you upon a stick. My stick. No one else may perch upon my throne, my lair, my kingdom, lest they be smote upon the ground like so much errant detritus. I am a fucking god.” Sex appeal is weird across the animal kingdom.

elephant pregnancy lats 22 months

makes sense that elephant psychosis would last longer too

TIL elephants experience pon farr.

Well because of how "evolution" - it makes you produce more babies than the others that didn't fuck and kill. So... That.

also btw i read somewhere that Musth (the manic episode) can be shortened down to approximately 2 weeks when the elephants are restrained (with a metal chain) and practically starved a bit (given very little food) for a while. (they survive ofc)

the cycle between the day and the night represents the cycle of mania and peace

If we hadn't already nuked ourselves by slaughtering the bees, and the bees suddenly took 80 % of our living space from us to expand their own, we'd be nuking them.

The fascinating part is, why aren't the smart, massive matriarchs ordering all humans stomped on sight?