Thong Kham
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Yok Don National Park elephant camp in Vietnam

Thong Kham lives together with 4 other elephants at the Yok Don National Park elephant camp:

1. ♀ Buon Kham born 1962
2. ♂ Cu sut born 2007
3. ♂ Thong Ngan born 1994
4. ♀ Y Khun born 1962

Thong Kham was born wild 1994 at Dong Nai province, captured 2001 .

Captured by expert team from Malaysia, and relocated to Yok Don National Park. Was too small to be relaesed, and constantly returned to base camp, why it was trained and kept captive since then.

Tusks curved and point forwards/downwards.

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Vu Duc Gioi, chief of tourist guides, Yok Don National Park
  
• The current situation of elephants in Vietnam, by Cao Thi Ly, Tay Nguyen University, Vietnam, 2011

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• More elephants from: Yok Don National Park elephant camp
• More elephants from: Vietnam
• More elephants that was born: 1994
• More elephants that was captured: 2001
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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