Pachyderm Prosthetic

Meet Chhouk. When he was just one-year old he lost part of his leg in a trap set by poachers and he nearly died. He's five now and doing fine at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center.


Part of the reason for his good health is that he is able to lumber about, and bathe in a lake because of the prosthetic he wears. Cambodia has thousands of people afflicted by limb loss and so the Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics, was called upon to see if they could also help this handsome pachyderm.


And they could. Of course there is a fair bit of wear-and-tear on the prosthetic and Chhouk is onto his fourth artificial leg.