Thong Nang (stillborn)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Yo Nie in Vietnam

Biography

☨* ♂ Thong Nang (stillborn)
Y Yo Ni, a mahout in Yang Tao Commune, Dak Lak Province sits by the tomb of baby elephant Thong Nang. Photo by VnExpress/Tran Hoa. HTTP code: 200 This image is inline deepink from an external server, inline linking does not directly infringe copyright but can be removed on request.

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Subspecies:	Elephas maximus indicus
Sex and age:	Male ♂, unknown age
Origin
Stillborn:	☨* 2019-12-01 captive-born (stillborn)
Birth place:	in Yo Nie
Birth weight	100.00 kgs, 220.00 lbs

Parents:	♂ Thong Rang x ♀ Bak Kham
Death
Dead:	†2019-12-01
Death location:	Yo Nie Bhok Village in Yang Tao Commune, Vietnam
Death reason:	☨* stillborn:
Burial:	2019-12-01, at Bhok Village in Yang Tao Commune
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Yo Nie, in Vietnam

Date of arrival

2019-12-01	Yo Nie
Record history
History of updates	2021-10-17

Latest document update	2025-08-21 16:02:58
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† Thong Nang (stillborn) is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 2019-12-01 at Yo Nie, in Vietnam, .

Origin

Thong Nang (stillborn) was born captive-born (stillborn) 2019-12-01 at Yo Nie.

Parentage

Parents of Thong Nang (stillborn) are: ♂ Thong Rang (father) and ♀ Bak Kham (mother).

Pedigree

**Thong Nang (stillborn)s ancestral Pedigree:**
P	I	II	III
Thong Nang (stillborn)	Sire (f): Thong Rang Born: 1973 2026-05	Sire ff: Born: 2026-05	Sire fff:
		Sire ff: Born: 2026-05	Dame ffm:
		Dame fm: Born: 2026-05	Sire fmf:
		Dame fm: Born: 2026-05	Dame fmm:
	Dame m: Bak Kham Born: 2026-05	Sire mf: Born: 2026-05	Sire mff:
		Sire mf: Born: 2026-05	Dame mfm:
		Dame mm: Born: 2026-05	Sire mmf:
		Dame mm: Born: 2026-05	Dame mmm:

Comments / pictures

2019: Female Bak Kham had a stillborn elephant baby,

VN Express – 26.12.2019No calves have survived birth since 1989 in a Central Highlands district where elephants are considered kin and buried among family members. Y Yo Ni, of the M’nong ethnic minority, wades through the mud to reach a cemetery near his home in Bhok Village of Yang Tao Commune, Lak District, Dak Lak Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The 21-yearold is visiting Thong Nang, a baby elephant that died earlier this year.

The Mahout is unclear why Thong Nang succumbed at birth, though he ascribes the incident to the mother being too old, heavily exploited by tourism, and confined to a small space. Five years ago, Yo Ni married and moved to Yang Tao Commune. Here, his father-in-law had made a living by providing tourist rides on a 40-year-old elephant named Bak Kham. When Bak Kham grew pregnant, she was transferred deeper into the mountain. Protected by nature, Yo Ni cared for her during the next two years. On the morning of December 1, Bak Kham gave birth to a stillborn infant the family was unable to resuscitate, having blown air into its Trunk for nearly 30 minutes. “My father-in-law couldn’t let go of the corpse. He just held it and wailed. Thong Nang weighed 100 kg,” Yo Ni explains. As the M’nong consider elephants kin, often cohabiting beneath the same roof, Thong Nang was interred next to Yo Ni’s family ancestors.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2026). Thong Nang (stillborn), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Yo Nie in Vietnam. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 13 May 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=10610. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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