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.