Elephant (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

Rice University

Elephant (1 of 3)

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Rice University graduate student Therese Lamperty spent three months in Gabon in 2016 to study how the presence or absence of megafauna like elephants affected some of the smallest creatures in the ecosystem.

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Photo courtesy of Therese Lamperty/Rice University

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