Plai Boonmee
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand

Biography
♂ Plai Boonmee

Identification


Description

Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Subspecies: Elephas maximus indicus
Sex and age:Male ♂
Management:Wild elephant
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place: in Thailand unspecified location
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Kaeng Krachan National Park, in Thailand

Date of arrival

Kaeng Krachan National Park
Record history
History of updates2018-05-05

Latest document update2022-07-27 04:09:18
Random literature
As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases,

Biography


Plai Boonmee is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Kaeng Krachan National Park, in Thailand.

Boonmee arrived to the Kaeng Krachan National Park unknown date,

Social

Boonmee lives together with 2 other elephants at the Kaeng Krachan National Park:

detailed list with arrival dates etc. of the other elephants
  1. Plai Boon Chuay
  2. Rith (wild) born >2010
and possibly other wild elephants which have no record in this database


Origin

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 Boonmee was born wild at Thailand unspecified location.


Comments / pictures

2022-03-02: Officials are stepping up measures to keep track of two lovable rogue elephants who occasionally have a brush with locals in a community in Hua Hin.

The elephants known as “Plai Boonchuay” and “Plai Boonmee” have been known to disturb people and damage property and farmland in the Huai Sat Yai sub district in Hua Hin, close to the Kaeng Krachan National Park.

On Tuesday (Mar 1), Pichai Watcharawongpaiboon, director of the Third Conservation Area Administration Office in Phetchaburi said that staff at the national park had put collars on the elephants.

The collars, complete with GPS, can track the movements of the elephants and report their location every six hours.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Plai Boonmee, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 22 December 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10497. (archived at the Wayback machine)


Sources used for this article is among others:

Links

Relevant links

Internal relevant links

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

Search more on the web for Plai Boonmee

(The name Boonmee is already submitted into the link, just click on the link for relevant results)


CategoriesElephants from Kaeng Krachan National Park | Thailand | Asian elephants


About this documentThis document was updated: 2022-07-27 04:09:18 with valid HTML5 Valid CSS


Elephant Encyclopedia and database
ELEPHANT
ENCYCLOPEDIA

Established 1995
ELEPHANT
DATABASE
Established 2006
Your ip: 52.15.70.0