New prosthetic leg for elephant who stood on landmine
29 March 2009
THIS girl is one hell of an elephant - she's got a brand new leg to prove it.
Mosha, a three-year-old Asian elephant, was just seven months old when she lost her front right leg after stepping on a landmine. She became the first elephant in the world to be fitted with a prosthetic leg two years ago.
Now aged three, she has been fitted with a second prosthetic limb after she grew out of her first one.
Fashioned out of plastic, sawdust and metal, Mosha now walks and can even run.
She is just one of many patients treated at Thailand's Friends of the Asian Elephant hospital, with fellow elephants suffering infections, broken bones and knife wounds.
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