Tracking Asian Elephants with Satellite Collars
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- National Zoo
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- 2,941
- Video Title
- Tracking Asian Elephants with Satellite Collars
- Description
- Aug. 12, 2016—Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute ecologist Melissa Songer studies Asian elephants and tracks them with satellite collars. The collars help scientists mitigate poaching and human-elephant conflict. For every $4,000 raised through Conservation Nation, she and her colleagues can buy a satellite collar to track a wild Asian elephant.
- Video Duration
- 1 min 53 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- zoo "national zoo" "smithsonian national zoo" "dc zoo" animals science conservation
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- 2016-08-12T14:03:40.000Z
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- YouTube Videos
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- SmithsonianNZP
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- Pets & Animals
- Topic
- Zoology;Animals;Veterinary medicine;Animal health
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- yt_VGb3tSIiKoY
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