Woolly mammoths were obsessed with sex. Analysis of the teeth showed that testosterone went off the scale in men.

Strong hormonal fluctuations and peeing are two obvious and not quite romantic signs that it’s time for elephants to mate. In a new study, scientists decided to draw parallels between modern giants and their long-extinct mammoth relatives. The Daily Mail believes researchers believe these animals are also sex-obsessed and suffer from bursts of testosterone.

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During the study, scientists from the University of Michigan focused on the analysis of woolly mammoth tusks, which are more than 30,000 years old. The results of the study show that, like modern relatives, male mammoths suffered from a surge of testosterone that literally caused them to become aggressive and come into conflict with their relatives.

Note that this state is called “must” and is something like drunkenness. During this period, male elephants experience intense sexual arousal and sometimes show unprecedented aggression. Scientists believe that long-extinct male woolly mammoths apparently lived in similar conditions.

According to the study’s lead author, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology researcher Michael Czerny, analysis of fossil teeth showed that, like modern elephants, adult male mammoths were obligate. Note that this is the first time researchers have seen these bursts of testosterone in an extinct species.

Researchers now believe this may indicate that mammoths experienced all the symptoms that modern elephants do, including:

• aggressive behavior;
• urine leakage;
• discharge from the temple gland at the back of the eye;
• change in posture and gait.

Note that the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was one of the last mammoth species to have lived on Earth until it went extinct about 4,000 years ago. Researchers note that members of this species coexisted with early humans who hunted them for food, bones and teeth to make weapons and art. Until now, scientists do not know the exact reason for the disappearance of woolly mammoths.

In a new study, scientists used dentin bone material to reconstruct the history of mammoths. This tissue is part of human tusks as well as elephant and woolly mammoth tusks and can sustain hormonal fluctuations.

According to study co-author Daniel Fisher, professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, mammoth tusks are actually a kind of “chronic” that preserves life history as the dentin grows. A mammoth in different eras.

During the study, the scientists examined the teeth of a 550-year-old male who lived about 38-33 million years ago, as well as a female who walked the Earth about 6,000 years ago. The specimens were then compared with the tusks of a modern 30- to 40-year-old African elephant killed in Botswana in 1963.

The researchers found that when obligatory, the elephant had a 20-fold greater increase in testosterone. At the same time, they were only 10 times higher in woolly mammoths than in their normal state.

Now the researchers hope their results will be the start of further studies of the life of ancient organisms, including long-extinct animals, apes and humans.

Previously Focus He wrote that woolly mammoths were not always “fluffy.”