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It takes many hands to check an elephant's heart rate. Just a simple swing of their tail could easily knock over a human.

This clip is from Episode 1: Caring for Elephants

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Take a trip to the world’s largest hospital devoted solely to treating elephants: the Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Northern Thailand, which cares for over 100 sick, injured or neglected animals each year. With unique access to the daily challenges faced by the vets and volunteers on site, this is a heart-warming series full of uplifting, extraordinary and unexpected stories—whether that’s treating an elephant with cancer or fitting a prosthetic leg to one that has lost a limb after standing on a land mine.

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00:00Although his disease can't be cured, the hospital staff want to give the VIP patient the best care
00:10possible in his later years of life. Today they want to check his heart rate, although the machine
00:19they're using was designed for much smaller animals such as cats and dogs. An animal the
00:26size of an elephant on the other hand is a little trickier to monitor. Unlike a dog, if an elephant
00:34wags its tail the team could be knocked down like skittles. Sometimes when like a tail swings
00:41they can make the wet or the staff hurt. Kidney disease can have a knock-on effect to the heart
00:52so monitoring will help the team assess red eyes condition. Before long, the results are in and it's good news.
01:04This heart is quite normal.
01:07Like in humans, the chronic kidney disease is like not healed but like a patient just supported
01:19to have like a more long lifespan.
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