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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

highest overall or highest percentage by body mass. Because one of the highest makes it sound like its a group of the largest mammals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's an excellent question, otherwise we'll end up with the whole lone alpha wolf meme nonsense again.

For example, this study talks about 'musth' when male elephants experience increased testosterone - perhaps that's what it's refering to. With a very quick Google search I couldn't find any general ranking of testosterone to body weight in animals.

Male elephants experience a biological phenomenon called “musth”, which is characterized by increased testosterone production, temporal gland secretion and urine dribbling, heightened aggression and sexual behavior, and therefore can pose unique challenges for human safety and animal welfare.

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=elephant+testosterone+levels+animal+model#d=gs_qabs&t=1751411578610&u=%23p%3D-2jT7oivOEYJ

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That makes sense. I forget sometimes the yearly mating common in animals works in both how the females and males systems work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How do you perceive this from:

Male elephants have on of the highest tesstosterone levels of any animal

?

A level is already a relative quantity.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I mean maybe. Im not really sure what level means. Is it an amount in a particular volume of blood as that would definitely be relative.