Plai Boonkong
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
FAE Elephant Hospital in Thailand

Biography

☨ ♂ Plai Boonkong

Alternative name:	Boon Kong

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂
Status:	sick
Dentition
Incisives	tusker
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†2016-08-24
Death reason:	disease: Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis))
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	FAE Elephant Hospital, in Thailand

Date of arrival

	FAE Elephant Hospital
Record history
History of updates	2022-03-25

Latest document update	2025-02-24 12:27:17
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† Plai Boonkong is a dead sick Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2016-08-24 at FAE Elephant Hospital, in Thailand, . Official death reason described as Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium Elephant Elephant TB (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)).

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 Boonkong was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Trimmed Tusks.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Plai Boonkong, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at FAE Elephant Hospital in Thailand. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=11224. (archived at the Wayback machine)