I was very happy that my predecessor had to decide about giving up elephants because probably for him, it was the most difficult decision to take because the public couldn’t understand it, that there isn’t enough space in Frankfurt Zoo for elephants. The issue, it started with bottle nose dolphins. Switzerland, because of political pressure, no longer allows the importation of bottle nose dolphin. And we have only one dolphin keeper in Switzerland that is not a recognized zoo. It continues with polar bears, it continues with elephants, and the next will be apes. But, at the same time, new elephant facilities are being built and I think these new elephant facilities will prove even animal rights organizations that we can keep elephants very easily. These new elephant facilities usually are built for two fully-adult bulls and up to four, five, six cows with their offspring. And, of course, we have done a lot of mistakes with elephant handling.
