BYPANDORA DEWANON 5/4/23 AT 10:07 AM EDT00:49

Elephant Gets New Prosthetic Foot

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An Asian elephant in Cambodia has moved online viewers after footage of him receiving a new prosthetic limb went viral on social media.

The videowas shared by British TV show presenter and wildlife photographer Cameron Whitnall onTikTokand has been viewed over 3.7 million times.

“Chhouk [the elephant] was found in 2007, at less than a year old, wandering alone in the forest in northeast Cambodia,” Whitnall toldNewsweek. “He had not only lost his foot to a poacher’s snare, but he was also gravely ill from the infected wound and severely malnourished.”