Plai Sak an Asian elephant at Copenhagen Zoo

Location

Plai Sak is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), located at Copenhagen Zoo, in Denmark.

Sak arrived Copenhagen Zoo 2017-05-17,

In Copenhagen Zoo, Plai Sak lives together with 5 other elephants with records in this database: (detailed list)

1. ♂ Jung Bul Kne born 2017-01-28
,
2. ♀ Pang Kungrao born 1998
,
3. ♀ Maha Kumari born 2007-05-09
,
4. ♀ Mun born 2020-10-01
,
5. ♀ Surin born 1998
, (see detailed list).

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 Sak was born captive-born 2017-05-17 at Copenhagen Zoo.

Parentage

Parents of Plai Sak are: ♂ Chieng Mai (father) and ♀ Kungrao (mother).

Siblings through the father Chieng Mai:

1. 1970-09-18(F) Irma
2. 1975-12-15(F) Schottzie
3. 1980-03-31 -- † 1984-09-08 (F) Maia
4. 1981-11-10 -- † 2020-07-24 (M) Chang
5. 1983-03-18 -- † 1990-09-07 (M) Haakon
6. 1986-01-22 -- † 2003-09-21 (F) Coco
7. 1991-10-28 -- † 1991-10-28 (F) noname
8. 1996-03-15 -- † 2006-02-09 (M) Santosh
9. 1997-02-17 -- † 1997-06-19 (M) Hannibal
10. 2001-12-02 -- † 2003-10-06 (M) Punjab
11. 2006-03-20(M) Gandhi
12. 2013-02-25 -- † 2014-11-24 (M) Khao Sok
13. 2013-08-26 -- † 2013-08-26 (F) stillborn
14. 2015-09-04 -- † 2015-09-04 (M) stillborn

Siblings through the mother Kungrao:

1. 2013-02-25 - † 2014-11-24 (M) Khao Sok

Pedigree

Sources used for this article is among others:

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Copenhagen Zoo
• More elephants from: Denmark
• More elephants that was born: 2017-05-17
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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