Plai Somjai
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Anantara Golden Triangles Elephant Camp in Thailand

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ♂ Plai Somjai  dead elephant

Identification


Description
Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Male ♂ 20 years old
Origin
Born:* 1995 captive-born
Birth place: in Khun Pai Tun

Parents: x ♀ Bua Jan
Death
Dead: 2015?
Death reason: disease: impaction
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Anantara Golden Triangles Elephant Camp, in Thailand

Date of arrival

2013-04-22Anantara Golden Triangles Elephant Camp
from Maetaman Elephant Adventure

Maetaman Elephant Adventure
from Khun Pai Tun

Record history
History of updates2013-04-28: transfer
2013-04-29: arrival date date
2018-04-30: corr birth type
2018-05-10: death report

Latest document update2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Plai Somjai is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2015? at Anantara Golden Triangles Elephant Camp, in Thailand, . Official death reason described as impaction.

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 Somjai was born captive-born 1995 at Khun Pai Tun.

Parentage


Parents of Plai Somjai are: ♂ (father) and ♀ Bua Jan (mother).

Siblings through the mother Bua Jan:

  1. 1985(M) Boon Me
  2. 2002(M) Somboon
  3. 2009-11-00(M) Erawan
  4. 2014-03-03 - † 2018-01-29 (M) Zuki

Pedigree


Somjais ancestral Pedigree:
P I II III

Somjai

Sire (f):


Born:
2025-05

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Born:
2025-05
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Born:
2025-05
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Dame m:
Bua Jan

Born: 1988
2025-05

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2025-05
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2025-05
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Comments / pictures

Owner: Khun Pai Tun

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Plai Somjai, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Anantara Golden Triangles Elephant Camp in Thailand. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 13 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=4188. (archived at the Wayback machine)


Sources used for this article is among others:

  • John Roberts, GTAEF

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