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Mosha is the first elephant ever to receive a functional prosthetic leg. Motola, the elephant that was injured by a landmine, has her prosthetic leg attached at the Friends of the Asian Elephant ...
Shocking pictures have emerged showing a baby elephant unable to move with its legs chained to a pole. Brit traveller Ross Martin said he first came across the isolated calf in a makeshift shack ...
a young Asian elephant arrived at the world’s first elephant hospital with a major injury to her front leg. Today, she’s the second elephant to ever receive a prosthesis, and she’s standing ...
An elephant in Thailand has been fitted with a new false leg, after outgrowing her original prosthetic. Mosha, 3, lost part of her right front leg as a seven-month-old when she stepped on a landmine.
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It took veterinarians and a dentist nearly five hours Saturday to remove what was left of an elephant’s infected tusk at the Oregon Zoo, and it took a chain saw ... to move his legs, then ...
Mosha, a 3-year-old elephant, is helped to walk by its keepers after putting on an artificial leg at the Elephant Hospital in Lampang province, northern Thailand in 2009. Prosthetic limbs aren't ...