SLIDE 2
(Thomas Hildebrandt)
In order to develop
new techniques in artificial insemination in an elephant, it is
very important to use the experience of a skilled elephant manager.
Here you see one of the famous elephant managers in Germany.
That's Karl Kock from the Hamburg Zoo. I have worked with him
over a long time and he has helped me very often to get new ideas
to adapt my techniques on such nice animals. The next pictures
are a little bit bloody. The first way to find out how an elephant
looks inside was to open an elephant. We used all necropsies which
were available in Germany to adapt our ultrasound techniques.
This picture is of a normal human ultrasound machine. You see,
we put our ultrasound probe directly on the structure of the genital
tract to find out how it looks in ultrasound. If you have a live
animal and you put your ultrasound probe inside, then you wouldn't
know what you were seeing. The other way to way to see the inside
of an elephant is through ultrasound through the skin, but would
found this is not possible because the distance is too great.
The next picture is my colleague from Germany; you will see him
again in the talk from Nancy.