There are important differences between dissecting, pickling and reassembling an Indian elephant and doing the same with a human being.
“Humans are very nice to handle,” says Angelina Whalley, standing in front of a calf muscle the size of her arm. “You can lift a limb, you can work nicely on a table.”
Behind her a tonne of elephant stands, stripped back to its flesh. “With an elephant, even with six people it would be difficult to move a leg,” she adds. So they used cranes.
Ms Whalley is the wife of Gunther von Hagens and one of the team