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Seen in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, at the American Museum of Natural History. In the same African bush elephant herd, behind the youngster and the matriarch is the large bull elephant, making his loud trumpet. As I said before, it is unusually for a bull to remian in the herd of females since bulls usually leave the herd during their teenage years and either join other males in bachelor herds or roam the land alone. Sometimes, however, bulls will join females to mate with them. One phase bulls go through (starting at the age of 24 years), however, is musth, which is when they experience swelling of the temporal glands and secretion of fluid, which happens to be the musth fluid, which flows down their cheeks. It can also be a scary phase since males in musth become more aggressive. They guard and mate with females in estrus, who stay closer to bulls in musth than to non-musth bulls. Periods of musth are short and sporadic in young bulls that are up to 35 years old and last a few days to weeks. Older bulls go through musth for 2–5 months every year. Musth occurs mainly during and following the rainy season, and when the females become in estrus. Bulls in musth often chase each other and are aggressive towards one another. When old and high-ranking bulls in musth threaten and chase young musth bulls, the younger musth bull either leave the group or their musth decreases (it is because older bulls suppress musth and aggressiveness of younger bulls, which would also protect rhinos too, since inexperienced young bulls in musth would sometimes kill them, due to their young age and inadequate socialisation).

Description
Seen in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, at the American Museum of Natural History. In the same African bush elephant herd, behind the youngster and the matriarch is the large bull elephant, making his loud trumpet. As I said before, it is unusually for a bull to remian in the herd of females since bulls usually leave the herd during their teenage years and either join other males in bachelor herds or roam the land alone. Sometimes, however, bulls will join females to mate with them. One phase bulls go through (starting at the age of 24 years), however, is musth, which is when they experience swelling of the temporal glands and secretion of fluid, which happens to be the musth fluid, which flows down their cheeks. It can also be a scary phase since males in musth become more aggressive. They guard and mate with females in estrus, who stay closer to bulls in musth than to non-musth bulls. Periods of musth are short and sporadic in young bulls that are up to 35 years old and last a few days to weeks. Older bulls go through musth for 2–5 months every year. Musth occurs mainly during and following the rainy season, and when the females become in estrus. Bulls in musth often chase each other and are aggressive towards one another. When old and high-ranking bulls in musth threaten and chase young musth bulls, the younger musth bull either leave the group or their musth decreases (it is because older bulls suppress musth and aggressiveness of younger bulls, which would also protect rhinos too, since inexperienced young bulls in musth would sometimes kill them, due to their young age and inadequate socialisation).