Plai Thong Teh
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Surin elephant study center (Ban Ta Klang Elephant Village) in Thailand

Biography

☨ ♂ Plai Thong Teh
Tong Tae in the Surin study center, before he was brought to his mahouts home village, where he died.

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 22 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1988 unknown
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†2010-11-00
Death reason:	disease:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Surin elephant study center (Ban Ta Klang Elephant Village), in Thailand

Date of arrival

	Surin elephant study center (Ban Ta Klang Elephant Village)
Record history
History of updates	2021-12-02

Latest document update	2025-02-28 09:04:58
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† Plai Thong Teh is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2010-11-00 at Surin elephant study center (Ban Ta Klang Elephant Village), in Thailand, .

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 Thong Teh was born unknown 1988.

Comments / pictures

Went back to home village some km outside Ban Ta Klang, and died there of disease.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Plai Thong Teh, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Surin elephant study center (Ban Ta Klang Elephant Village) in Thailand. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=7014. (archived at the Wayback machine)