(FILES) This file photo taken on March 16, 2016 shows a Kenya Wildlife Services veterinary preparing to dart an elephant from a helicopter to set him a newly fitted collar recovers on March 15, 2016 at the Tsavo east national park (approximately 337 kilometres south east) of capital, Nairobi. Ten elephants ranging near the high speed standard gauge railway, currently being built across the tsavos, will be fitted with advanced radio tracking collars that will help conservationists map the pachyderm's migratory tendencies across the new tracks using migratory corridors incorporated into the SGR infrastructure and inform mitigation of any arising disruptions in their natural movement cycles by the multi-billion project. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA
TSAVO, Kenya: Dangling from a helicopter with a high powered rifle, a Kenyan vet fires drugged darts at elephants to sedate them so they can be fitted with satellite collars.
Ten minutes after the elephant is darted, the lumbering creature stumbles, and falls asleep. Ground teams are scrambled, rushing to the scene with just a 20 minute window to conduct tests and fit the collar before it regains consciousness.
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