Monday, March 09, 2009

A land-mine victim, baby elephant gets prosthetic leg...

Raising her trunk, three-legged Mosha salutes her new prosthetic limb, which means she can get back on the jungle trail. 

The young Asian elephant lost her right front leg after stepping on a landmine aged only seven months old.

Close to death, she was rescued and brought to the Friends of the Asian Elephant hospital in Lampang, Thailand, where she became the first elephant in the world to be fitted with a prosthetic leg in 2007. Story + photos + video...

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 12, 2009 at 1:49 AM

    From the video the Prosthetics seems to be working really well. Wonderful Technology...

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  2. UnknownMarch 12, 2009 at 12:35 PM

    Yes, it's good to know that this elephant has been aided by technology, but how ironic that it's technology itself that created the problem in the first place...

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