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Our SWT/KWS Tsavo Mobile Vet Unit first treated this elephant on 19th August, recovering an arrowhead from a wound on his left torso. More than a month later, our pilot spotted him again during an aerial patrol — this time with another wound on his front left leg, likely...

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