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US animal conservation donates artificial legs to Thai elephants

BANGKOK, July 5 (TNA) - Representatives of a US private-run animal conservation organisation on Sunday donated a new set of artificial legs to two Thai elephants. Official said representatives of the ‘Animal Ortho Care’ of Virginia traveled to the Elephant Hospital in Hang Chat district of the northern province of Lampang and donated the new set of artificial legs to the 54-year-old elephant and a nine-year-old elephant. Both elephants accidentally loss their legs more than a decade ago when they stepped on a land mine while pulling logs in Myanmar. The Elephant Hospital gave the treatment to the wounded elephants but they lost their legs and received the artificial legs from a foundation under the patronage of the late Princess Mother. The two elephants felt uneasy as their weight increased, officials said. It is hoped that the two elephants could walk comfortably after receiving the new artificial legs, they added. (TNA)

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