It was challenging, and you know, it was just great, we first started out doing elephants, as I said, for collecting sperm and doing that, we’re doing ’em all from ground vehicles, driving around looking for them, and maybe we’d find, oh maybe if you’re lucky, three elephants in a couple of days, and get off, unload all our stuff and do our data, and so finally, we decided we got a little bit more money, let’s say let’s do helicopters. You know, helicopters were $800 an hour back then, so we did helicopters, and the first morning, we got five elephants done, because the chopper pilot would get us one elephant down, and they’d say, “When do you need the next elephant?” And we’d say, “Well it’s gonna take us 35 minutes to complete the protocol and get this elephant up.” They would go out, find an elephant, and then herd it back toward us where we were, had all our equipment, dart it, and then drop it sometimes within 50 meters of where we were working. So we were just carrying our stuff instead of driving all this time from elephant to elephant, and got tremendous amounts of data, in just a matter of a couple of days on elephants, because South Africa was nice working like that, because it had the infrastructure. We did work in Tanzania and in Kenya, where the infrastructure wasn’t that great, where they had trucks with hydraulic things, and pick up animals and move animals and do everything, and they were well-versed in moving animals, and they had all the equipment and the personnel, so it worked well.
