A brand-new prosthetic leg was fitted into a three-limbed elephant in Tʜᴀɪʟᴀɴᴅ, giving it new life. After stepping on a landmine, the nine-year-old Mosha elephant ʟᴏsᴛ a limb in 2006. Since Mosha’s arrival, the MaeYao National Reserve in Lampang, which claims to have constructed the first elephant hospital in history, has fitted her with five prosthetic limbs.
Mosha was the first elephant in the world to receive a prosthetic leg after being brought to the hospital at the age of seven months. Since then, team workers have built a series of more strong custom legs to sustain the animal’s weight due to its continuing growth.
The three-legged elephant is first seen in the video stumbling around its habitat before setting its stump on a wooden fence.
After donning socks, staff members approach the elephant with the artificial limb and attach it to its stump. Mosha, clearly overjoyed with the leg, is seen roaming further into the enclosure and, seemingly in celebration, gathering sand in her trunk and tossing it over herself.
Soraida Salwala inaugurated the MaeYao National Reserve’s elephant hospital in 1993. Over 3,900 ill and injured elephants have received care since that time for a variety of ailments, including fractured bones, gunshot wounds, eye infections, and ᴅʀᴜɢ ᴀᴅᴅɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ.
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