Well, I'm glad to read that sometimes we treat animals as more than an inferior species:
A Thai elephant who lost a foot after stepping on a landmine six years ago has had a temporary limb fitted.
Motala, 44, is set to wear the sawdust filled canvas shoe for up to eight months to help her leg get strong enough for a more permanent prosthesis.
The poor animal had stepped, like many humans before her, on a land mine while she was helping out in a logging camp:
Motala's accident raised awareness of the plight of elephants working along the Thai-Burmese border, an area littered with landmines from Burma's 50-year insurgency.
I like to think that they owed her such care after her valiant sacrifice.
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