The elephant Mosh was blown up by a mine, being quite small. Do not forget her story!

Since the war, thousands of active anti-personnel mines have remained on the border between the Kingdom of Thailand and the Republic of Myanmar, both human and animal casualties.

Elephants blown up by mines lose their limbs and, as a rule, no longer survive. But now great news has appeared for them. It turns out that in Thailand they learned how to make special prostheses for them.

Meet this elephant called Mosh. She was blown up by a mine, being completely crumb, she was only a few months old.

She was taken to the veterinarians in Lampang province in northern Thailand, but the leg of the animal could not be saved, the limb had to be amputated.

Fortunately for Moshi, a couple of years after the tragedy, the local surgeon Terdchay Zhivakate was able to build a prosthesis for her, and then the elephant was able to start living fully again.

Elephant prostheses in a doctor’s workshop.

Moshe put on her artificial leg.

If the elephant had not been returned, it would simply have died, since the load on the spine in this case is distributed extremely unevenly.

Over time, Mosh grew, and the artificial limb became small for her. Then Terdchay Zhivakate made her a new one weighing 600 kilograms. In the process of growing up, along with the elephant, her prostheses also grew. The latter weighs more than 2 tons.

In the photo below, Mosh tries to walk on a new prosthesis. This, of course, is not the same as with a real foot, but much better than nothing at all. At least the elephant looks pleased.

As a prophylaxis, an artificial leg is sometimes unfastened.

This is another elephant injured in minefields. His name is Motola. The doctor tries on his new leg.

Mosh (left) and Motola (right).

Thanks to the prostheses created by Terdchai Zivakate, the elephants got a chance for another life.

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