"The new canvas leg was created for Mocha, a female elephant being cared for by Thai vets. The animal was severely injured when she stepped on a landmine at the Thai-Myanmar border, losing her front right leg in the blast. But now experts at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital ... have come to her aid - hoping she can soon be set safely free on her own four feet again."
Original story linked at A Welsh View. The realist in me would have to note that if the animal is "set free" the prosthesis will soon become inadequate for a growing pachyderm. But the story does illustrate 1) the evils of unexploded munitions like land mines and cluster bombs, and 2) the essential good nature of most humans.
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