Mosha the elephant looks happy learning to walk with her new jumbo-sized prosthetic leg.
Her leg was blown off when she stepped on a landmine when she was just seven months old.
She was close to death when she was taken in by the Friends of the Asian Elephant hospital in Lampang, Thailand, in 2007.
Her new peg leg is crafted from plastic, sawdust and metal.
It is the first time an elephant has been fitted with a prosthetic leg.
Mosha, an Asian elephant, lives at an orphanage for elephants in the tropical jungle of northern Thailand, near the Cambodian border.
Now aged three, Mosha wolfs down 200lb of food a day.
Metro.co.uk featured her last year when she had a stump fitted but she has now had to have a larger limb fitted to support her bulk.
Thousands of pachyderms are injured and killed due to landmines, with a recent survey estimating there are about 100 new mine casualties each year.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Mosha_the_elephants_new_peg_leg&in_article_id=575202&in_page_id=34
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