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Changes in Rut (Mammalian Reproduction)

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Adding in more citations in white deer section and adding more worldwide content. Improving grammatical structure.

Elephants

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The rut in elephants is characterized by increased sexual activity, aggression, secretions from the temporal glands and continual urine discharge and is known as musth meaning intoxication or mast in Urdu. Although this phenomenon was only originally shown in Asian elephants ( Darwin 1871) it occurs in African elephants as well (Hanks 1979). Asian elephants only

Article Evaluation

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Article evaluation of Hybridization : This article is well written although it is missing several citations which found the scientific basis for this article and many of the links do not work or lead to a page where you cannot access the referenced material. There was also somewhat irrelevant information regarding the etymology of the word and its more common species, but it does provide information relevant to linguists, not animal behaviourists. The article provides various view points from different fields of science on hybridization. This article is a good natural life sciences under the Wiki criterion and is a level 4 vital article involved in the Wikiprojects: Genetics, Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Agriculture.