New dawn in elephant research

Taming the wild: Wildlife rangers and researchers collaring a wild elephant bull, which will enable tracking of its movements in the forest. – MEME

Mobilising cheap, modern technologies and out-of-the-box thinking, scientists are trying to overcome the challenges of studying elephants in the wild.

WHEN people ask Spanish biologist Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz whether he studies elephants because they are cute, he says no. He studies them because they are very, very large.