U.S. co. offers to help elephant
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A U.S. company has offered to make an artificial
foot for an elephant injured after stepping on a land mine, a Thai foreign
ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Carl Riecken, owner of Riecken's Orthodic
Laboratory in Evansville, Ind., has offered to provide a ready-made
elephant foot or materials and expertise. The plan will be discussed with
veterinarians taking care of the elephant, Motola, at the Hang Chat
Elephant Hospital in Lampang, about 300 miles north of Bangkok. A team of
surgeons from Chiang Mai University in northern Thailand on Aug. 28
amputated Motola's left front foot, which was shredded by an anti-personnel
land mine she stepped on a few weeks earlier while preparing for logging
work at the Thai-Myanmar border. See full story
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