When a baby elephant in Thailand was injured in late 2015 by a farmer's snare set to protect crops, the young pachyderm lost part of its front left foot. With infection a serious possibility, and an inability to walk spelling serious risk for the 6-month-old animal, the Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden in Pattaya, Thailand, took in the young Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).

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"We named her Clear Sky Up Ahead, because that is what she will need while she is with us," Kampon Tansacha, the director of the zoo where she now lives, told AFP.

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Clear Sky is undergoing hydrotherapy at a nearby animal hospital to help rehabilitate her injured leg, whose muscles have withered over the past three months.

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The baby elephant lives in an enclosure near working elephants. She lost part of her front left foot in a snare set by villagers protecting their crops. Clear Sky is the first elephant to receive hydrotherapy at an animal hospital near the park.The hydrotherapy sessions aim to help Clear Sky strengthen the muscles in her leg, which have atrophied since her injury.Hydrotherapy allows the elephant to move its leg and exercise its muscles.

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