Female elephant upgrades artificial limb lost front leg on land mine. Mosha elephant weighed about 1,300 pounds when she wounded.
A female elephant lost her front leg on a land mine near Thailand’s border with Myanmar.
Mosha elephant weighed about 1,300 pounds when she wounded.
Female elephant upgrades artificial limb lost front leg on land mine.
Now Mosha elephant weighs more than 4,000 pounds, and her growth has necessitated frequent upgrades of her artificial leg.
Mosha 7 months old when she stepped on a land mine near Thailand’s border with Myanmar and lost a front leg.
Mosha elephant weighed about 1,300 pounds when she wounded.
First elephant fitted with a prosthetic limb at the hospital near Lampang.
Today, elephant more than 4,000 pounds, and her growth has necessitated frequent upgrades of her artificial leg.
Female elephant upgrades artificial limb lost front leg on land mine.
Elephant fitted with an artificial limb; lost front leg on land mine
Dr. Therdchai Jivacate, a Thai orthopedist who helped design prosthetic limbs for the elephants, said they could not survive without them.
When she cannot walk she is going to die when Mosha fitted with a new prosthesis.
She first elephant fitted with a prosthetic limb at the hospital near Lampang.
When elephant received her newest artificial limb last week, The way she walked unbalanced, and her spine going to bend.
That means she would have hurt her cartilages badly and eventually stopped walking.
The Thai Elephant Conservation Center estimates that there are 2,000 to 3,000 elephants living in the wild in Thailand and about 2,700 domesticated ones.
Female elephant upgrades artificial limb lost front leg on land mine.
Elephants in Thailand worked in the logging industry, where their agility and strength made them a valuable asset.
But the Thai government banned logging in the nation’s forests in 1989, putting them out of work.
Mosha was just seven months old when the accident happened and she was rushed to an elephant hospital.
The Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation in Lampang province in northern Thailand.
