Motola , like so many who must portion out their lives with former war zones and draw a blank minefields , lost a arm in 1999 . Thankfully , she walk again today courtesy modern medicine and an artificial limb . The thing is , she ’s an elephant .
And , as an elephant , she weighs three short ton . That kind of weighting — excuse me for saying so , ma’am — requires one inviolable prosthetic machine . It take a few years of work to get right .
In the meantime , Motola was forced to expend a impermanent prosthetic equipment . This was whole indecent of her status as a well-thought-of 48 - class - sure-enough pachyderm .
We can reconstruct her . They did rebuild her . Motola : The Million Dollar Elephant . [ SFGate ]
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