† Plai Boonam is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2012-03-00 at Seri Srisuj, in Thailand, . Official death reason described as worked to death?.
Plai is a prefix name, orginally a Mon word, meaning youthful male or a strong man, today used in Thailand for male elephants with tusks.
Plai Boonam was born unknown 1963 at Asia unspecified location.
The owner of the elephant found mutilated in Krabi on Thursday has confessed to working the animal to death. Local villagers had discovered the gruesome remains, now identified as that of 49-year-old elephant Plai Boonam. The front of the head had been hacked off and the elephant’s tusk was missing. In response, Krabi Muang District Chief Yutisak Akeakkara and Wiboon Lerdwattnasombut, chief of the Krabi Livestock Office, launched an investigation into the cause of death of the pachyderm. The owner was found to be 57-year-old Seri Srisuk, who told the officials that Plai Boonan had died from exhaustion. “It was hot and he worked hard for many days,” said Mr Seri.
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