Giraffe are the tallest animal on earth, so naturally scientists have turned to big data solutions for giraffe conservation. Researchers from the Penn State and Wild Nature Institute are conducting one of the biggest large mammal studies ever undertaken by studying births, deaths, and movements of more than 3,000 giraffes across a 4,000 square kilometre landscape in the Tarangire Ecosystem of northern Tanzania, East Africa.
Dr. Derek E. Lee, Associate Research Professor at Penn State University’s Department of Biology and Principal Scientist of the Wild Nature Institute said, “These are big animals, and they cover big distances, so naturally we are
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