If the animal suddenly went into heat despite being sexually immature it was assumed that the woman was pregnant and her hormones were kicking off an early estrous cycle for the rodent.
Because I think there is a legend about the discovery of palm wine and it's because, that's why I asked if it was a big animal because apparently elephants would be like sort of rutting at the trees and getting pissed.
Sometimes elephants are very slow, but then there are other times when they're in must and, and, uh, you know, trying to guard a female where things happen so fast, it's kind of nonstop activity.