Thai elephant given prosthetic leg

Published: 18 August 2009 y., Tuesday
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10 years ago while She working at a logging camp along the border with Thailand and Myanmar 48 old Matola – the elephant - stepped on a mine.

A decade after her accident she is being fitted with a prosthetic leg.

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