20 Oct '12, 12am

Stanford Researchers Use Solar Power To Study Wild Elephants in Africa

"One of the really special aspects of solar energy is that it allows us to be in this incredibly remote area that's closed to tourists and is off the grid," said lead researcher Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell , an instructor at the Stanford School of Medicine and a collaborating scientist at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. "We get to watch elephant society unfold before us in a very quiet environment – no generators, no people, no vehicles," she added. O'Connell-Rodwell has been studying elephant communication at Mushara for 20 years. She was the first scientist to demonstrate that low-frequency calls produced by elephants generate powerful vibrations in the ground – seismic signals that elephants can feel, and even interpret, via their sensitive trunks and feet. To identify individual elephants, Stanford undergraduate Patrick Freeman took hundreds of high-resolutio...

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