Sama is a three-legged elephant at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage who lost the lower part of the right foreleg to an anti-personnel landmine during Sri Lanka’s war, and became a symbol of the war’s toll on wildlife. Sama was rescued as a young calf from a jungle in the east (sources give 1991 for the rescue and 1996 for arrival at Pinnawala). Foreign vets designed several artificial legs, but Sama rejected and destroyed them all. Years of hopping on three legs have curved the spine into a hunch, which vets fear may shorten Sama’s life.