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.