Three-Legged Elephant (land mine) Gets a Prosthetic Limb (one happy elephant) [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

It’s been eight years since a land mine cost her part of a leg, but Mosha walks on.


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March 03, 2015 By Taylor Hill

Taylor Hill is TakePart's associate environment and wildlife editor.

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Mosha, a three-legged Asian elephant, just got an upgrade.

The nine-year-old pachyderm was fitted last week with a prosthetic leg at the elephant care center that has been her home for most of her life.

In 2006, at just seven months, Mosha stepped on a land mine in Thailand and lost part of her front right leg.

Two days later the Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital at MaeYao National Reserve in Lampang, northern Thailand, took Mosha in to treat her injuries. There she slowly recovered and began learning how to get around on three legs.

But two-thirds of an elephant’s body weight rests on its front limbs, and FAE workers were worried that if anything happened to Mosha’s one good leg, they would most likely have to put her down.

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