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Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries

The first elephants were given prosthetic legs after their in.ju.ries

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Meet the first two elephants to have been fitted with prosthetic legs after they were seriously injured when they stepped on a landmine in Southeast Asia.

Mosha and Motola, living at the Asian Elephant Foundation in northern Thailand, both lost their legs more than a decade ago when they were calves.

They made headlines a few years ago when they became the first and second elephants to be fitted with prosthetics, but surgeons have to design new and stronger legs for them as they get older.

Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Mosha and Motola (pictured), who live at the Asian Elephant Foundation in northern Thailand, have been fitted with prosthetic limbs after losing their legs in landmine accidents more than a decade ago

Mosha received her ninth prosthetic on Wednesday.

She was just seven months old when she stepped on a landmine along the Thailand-Myanmar border ten years ago.

She was taken to a hospital affiliated with the Asian Elephant Foundation and has been in their care ever since.

Two years after her accident, surgeon Therdchai Jivacate gave her new legs and a new life. As she has grown, he designed new, longer and stronger legs for her.

Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
As they grow larger, surgeons have to design new and stronger legs for them and Mosha (pictured) received her ninth prosthetic on Wednesday
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Motala, who was pictured being fitted for her prosthetic leg on Wednesday, stepped on a landmine 16 years ago near the Thai-Myanmar border
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
As elephants grow larger, surgeons at the Asian Elephant Foundation in northern Thailand have to design new and stronger legs for them
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Motala (pictured) stepped on a landmine 16 years ago and has been cared for by the Asian Elephant Foundation since. She became the second elephant to be fitted with a prosthetic leg after Mosha
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Mosha was first fitted with her prosthetic eight years ago by surgeon Therdchai Jivacate. As she has grown, he has designed new, longer and stronger legs for her

Therdchai, 72, said of Mosha before receiving her latest leg: ‘The way she walked was unbalanced and her spine would bend. ‘She would have d.ied.’

Mosha, who weighed only 600 kg when she was given her first prosthetic limb, now weighs more than 2,000 kg.

Motala stepped on a landmine 16 years ago. She became the second elephant to be fitted with a prosthetic leg after Mosha.

The nature of her trauma and growth meant she was uncomfortable with her prosthetic, according to the Asian Elephant Foundation hospital.

Established in 1993, the facility was the world’s first elephant hospital and currently has 17 patients.

The Thailand-Myanmar border is still littered with landmines left over from clashes between ethnic minority rebels and the Myanmar army that date back decades.

Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Mosha , who weighed only 600 kg when she was given her first artificial limb, now weighs over 2,000 kg
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Engineer Boonyu Thippaya (left) and a member of his teamwork to adjust a prosthetic leg for an elephant injured by a landmine
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Engineer Boonyu Thippaya works on building a new prosthetic leg for one of the animals at the Asian Elephant Foundation in northern Thailand
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Founded in 1993, the facility was the world’s first elephant hospital and currently has 17 patients
Nature And Wildlife Tv | The First Elephants Were Given Prosthetic Legs After Their In.ju.ries
Mosha and Motola, who live at the Asian Elephant Foundation in northern Thailand, both lost legs more than a decade ago when they were just calfs
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