Plai Plai
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Unknown in Unknown

Biography

☨ ♂ Plai Plai

Identification

EEP nr	911

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂, unknown age
Status:	Lost to follow-up
Origin
Born:	* 1891 wild
Birth place:
Imported:	1894 by Unknown
Freight:	ship
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Unknown, in Unknown

Date of arrival

	Unknown from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

1899-09-08	Firma Carl Hagenbeck from Copenhagen Zoo

1894-09-20	Copenhagen Zoo from Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu

Record history
History of updates	2018-05-08

Latest document update	2025-02-28 08:49:22

† Plai Plai is a dead Lost to follow-up Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Unknown, in Unknown, .

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 Plai was born wild 1891. and imported 1894 by Unknown, ship

Comments / pictures

Gift from Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu.

Records about Plai from EEPEuropean Studbook for Asian elephants state following records for the asian elephant Plai:

911 M ~ 1891 WILD WILD THAILAND ~ 1891 NONE Birth PLAI
PRIVATE 1 Jan 1894 NONE Transfer
COPENHAGE 20 Sep 1894 10365 Transfer
HAMBURG 8 Sep 1899 NONE ltf Transfer

Source: EEP studbook for Asian elephants online

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Plai Plai, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Unknown in Unknown. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1543. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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