Plai Lomsak
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand

Biography

☨ ♂ Plai Lomsak

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂
Origin
Born:	* captive-born
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location

Parents:	♂ x ♀ Lampang
Death
Dead:	†2006-01-13
Death reason:	disease: Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary, in Thailand

Date of arrival

2005-00-00	Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary
Record history
History of updates	2013-05-11

Latest document update	2025-02-28 08:41:50

† Plai Lomsak is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2006-01-13 at Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary, in Thailand, . Official death reason described as Elephant endotheliotropic herpes virus.

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 Lomsak was born captive-born at Asia unspecified location.

Parentage

Parents of Plai Lomsak are: ♂ (father) and ♀ Lampang (mother).

Reference list

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Plai Lomsak, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=803. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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