Researchers In London Using Thermal Imaging To Potentially Help Endangered Elephants

(CBS LOCAL) – A new idea to save elephants starts with a camera – a thermal camera, that is.Researchers at Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo, the UK’s largest zoo, hope those images will help protect the endangered species in the wild.“We needed a way to detect elephants in the dark. That was the real true need of this project,” says conservation tech specialist Alasdair Davies.Tech specialists like Davies have been training a camera to recognize the