WATCH: Elephant runs amok on three legs in SA's Kruger National Park!
This three-legged elephant is turning heads in the Kruger National Park...
One normally goes on a game drive to have an encounter with a rare animal but imagine the "wonderment" one might have experienced when seeing a three-legged elephant.
Elephants are colossal animals with the average weighing up to 6 000kg!
Vutomi, a female elephant was spotted in the long grass by Cathan Moore walking with its herd at the Timbavati Private Nature Reserve in Mpumalanga.
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“To my amazement, I noticed an elephant with a very unorthodox walk in between the mass of grey bodies and on closer approach, realised it was Vutomi, the 3-legged elephant! Her story has an element of mystery, however, we believe that her amputation was the result of either a landmine from the Mozambique civil war or a gin trap set by poachers."
Mzansi is shook by this amazing elephant who 'walks the walk'.
This isn't the first time animals have had to function without ligaments but definitely an extraordinary sighting for South Africa.
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Earlier this year we came across a snake who is able to slither with the help of technology.
Advancements in animal prosthetics have made the impossible possible.
Who knows, we might be seeing a "robotic" elephant in the near future...
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