>From today's New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/05/science/05OBSE.html

"Male Asian elephants...

The researchers discovered that during musth, a time each year when
elephants increase their sexual activity and aggressiveness, immature male
elephants secrete sweet-smelling chemicals from glands in their temples.
These chemicals have a honeylike smell, which is not surprising given that
they are similar to those found in honey.

As males mature, however, the sweet-smelling compounds are gradually
replaced by others, with the result that an older adult male during musth is
a pretty foul-smelling creature.

..researchers ... say that the sweet smell of the immature animals acts as a
signal to older males that they are not a threat."

So -- that euphoric something in the air of the apiary is the same as the
smell that a bull elephant receives when all the other male elephants are
too young to compete?

K. Oland