Katarzyna Nowak was a 2016–2017 Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science when she traveled to Tanzania to report this story. She is now a visiting scientist in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. Nowak also maintains a research affiliation with the University of the Free State, Qwaqwa, South Africa, and advises the Southern Tanzania Elephant Program. She has published her work on elephants and monkeys in academic journals, and has more recently had her work published in National Geographic and American Scholar.