Caitlin O’Connell

1 week ago | africanelephantjournal.com | Caitlin O’Connell |Kate Wong

By Caitlin O’Connell edited by Kate Wong – Scientific AmericanI woke up in the research tower to a soft exhale and then a trickle of water at the waterhole below. The full moon hung low and dim in the west. I squinted at my watch. It was 4 A.M. I wondered which of my elephant study subjects had come to drink at this hour.