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Stork Gets Wooden Leg

By Miss Cellania in Animal on Nov 26, 2009 at 11:07 am


Life isn’t easy for a long-legged wading bird with only one leg, but this one got help to live a relatively normal life. A stork named Dietmar has become the world’s first stork with a prosthetic wooden leg. The stork is under the care of a bird sanctuary in Saxony, Germany. Medical specialists crafted a new limb after sanctuary workers raised a £1,000 to finance the venture.

“He gets on very well in the sanctuary with his new leg but he can’t live in the wild any more so he’s here with us for the rest of his days,” said keeper Rolf Arensberg.

Link -via Arbroath


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  1. pwscott
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Is this the new delivery guy for Cabbage Patch dolls (they are prosthetic children)? :p

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