Elephant fitted with artificial leg
Updated on 18 August 2009
An elephant that lost its leg in a landmine blast ten years ago is fitted with a prosthetic limb in Thailand.
Motala, the injured elephant, lives at the The Friends of Asian Elephants Foundation elephant hospital in Lampang, northern Thailand.
Motala's injury sparked international sympathy and donations, and in Thailand the 48-year-old pachyderm became a symbol of the plight of elephants.
After the new prosthetic leg was fitted Motala was taken out for a walk.
The elephant was injured in 1999 while working at a logging camp along the Myanmar-Thailand border, a region peppered with land mines after half a century of insurgency.
