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Elephant collared for research examining movement patterns and crop raiding by elephants

  • Friday, February 13th, 2015

Kenya Wildlife Service veterinarians and rangers captured a crop-raiding elephant to attach a new tracking collar designed by faculty from the WKU Biology and Engineering Departments.  The collar is designed to alert local subsistence farmers to a crop raid by the young bull elephant. WKU alumnus Simon Kasaine is coordinating the project in Kenya.

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