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

Biography
♂ Plai Somlak

Identification


Description
Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:Male ♂
Management:Wild elephant
Origin
Born:* unknown
Birth place:
Offspring
Total: 1 babies

1. Born 2012-04-17 Unnamed
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary, in Thailand

Date of arrival

2006-07-07Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary
Record history
History of updates2013-05-11

Latest document update2025-02-28 08:44:58
This record may be a duplicate record with Plai Somrak at Doi Pha Muang Wildlife Sanctuary

Biography


Plai Somlak is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at the Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary, in Thailand.

Somlak arrived in 2006-07-07 to the Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary,

Social

Somlak lives together with 19 other elephants at the Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary: (detailed list)

  1. 2. ♂ Adul
  2. 3. ♂ Plai Chalard born 2003
  3. 4. ♀ Pang Dao
  4. 5. ♀ Pang Dara
  5. 6. ♂ plai Doraemon born 2005
  6. 7. ♀ Pang Duen
  7. 8. ♀ Pang Duh
  8. 9. ♀ Pang Hua Dee
  9. 10. ♀ Pang Jarunee (Charunee)
  10. 11. ♀ Pang Kham Moon Yai
  11. 12. ♀ Pang Maeboonkaew
  12. 13. ♀ Pang Ploy
  13. 14. ♀ Pang Pom Pam
  14. 15. ♀ Pang Pornchita
  15. 16. ♂ Plai Sombat
  16. 17. ♂ Plai Somchai
  17. 18. ♂ Plai Srisakorn
  18. 19. ⚪ Unnamed born 2012-04-17
  19. 20. ♀ Pang Yai born 1973
and possibly other wild elephants which have no record in this database

Offspring

Total: 1 babies
  1. () 2012-04-17 Unnamed


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 Somlak was born unknown .

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Plai Somlak, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Sublanka Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 21 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=1910. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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