SLIDE 3
(Thomas Hildebrandt)

This is the way we adapted ultrasound in elephants. You see, elephants have a good relationship with our ultrasound machine. Every time we have a nice greeting if we come in the Zoo and especially here in the National Zoo with Shanthi; it was amazing how she reacted to the procedure . That's whyy we were able to see the very important organ of the genital tract, the ovaries. We developed this adapter, which weighs about two kilograms, on the top of which is a small ultrasound probe. This allowed us to go deep in the intestines and to get in close contact with the ovaries, and then to get a good ultrasound view of the ovaries.