Star Tortoise gains wheels after losing limbs, can walk again, in Chennai

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This adorable animal has a new way to move around after a terrible accident and is expected to live a full, normal life thanks to the help from these awesome humans! A turtle in a Chennai zoo has been fitted with wheels after it lost one of its front legs in a suspected predator attack. The two-year old female star turtle, an endangered species, was seriously injured and faced difficulty moving around. It had even stopped consuming food. The veterinary doctors at the zoo then thought of the novel idea of fitting wheels on her. They made it a point to use lightweight material, including wheels used for rolling windows and a light steel rod, in order to make movement easy for the turtle. "We had a small plan of a prosthetic involvement already. So what we did was we used special window wheel