Thanks
(Thomas Hildebrandt)

Thanks, John, for this nice introduction. I will start with some pictures and some problems of elephants which make it a little bit more clear why we must develop new techniques and adopt new techniques to get more information about this mega-vertebrate. It's amazing that this animal, which has lived so long near the human society, has so many unclear problems and such a low reproductive rate in captivity that we must try to use new techniques to solve some of these problems.