

Luckily, the elephant was one that Presotto and her team at the Victoria Falls Elephant Project had been tracking using GIS. “Though largely docile, male African elephants are protective of their space and will become aggressive if threatened by humans.” “The students’ safety was an absolute priority for the school,” said Andrea Presotto, an animal cognitive geographer and assistant professor in the Geography and Geosciences department at Salisbury University in Maryland. The Victoria Falls Elephant Project team had been tracking the elephant that visited Baobab Primary School, pictured here, for almost a year.
