Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Plai Tawan at Doi Pha Muang Wildlife Sanctuary

Location

Plai Tawan is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located at Doi Pha Muang Wildlife Sanctuary, in Thailand.

Tawan arrived Doi Pha Muang Wildlife Sanctuary 2012-04-06, relocated from Anantara Golden Triangles Elephant Camp, in Thailand.

In Doi Pha Muang Wildlife Sanctuary, Plai Tawan lives together with 22 other elephants with records as alive in this database:

1. 1. ♀ Pang Numfon born 1964
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2. 2. ♀ Pang Boonrod
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3. 3. ♀ Pang Buathong
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4. 4. ♀ Pang Janpang born 1966
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5. 5. ♀ Pang Khonthong
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6. 6. ♀ Pang Kwan
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7. 7. ♀ Pang Lampang
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8. 8. ♀ Pang Malee
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9. 9. ♀ Pang Morakot
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10. 10. ♀ Pang Nimnuan
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11. 11. ♀ Pang Saithong
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12. 12. ♀ Pang Sunee
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13. 13. ♀ Pang Suthas
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14. 14. ♀ Pang Tongbai
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15. 15. ♀ Phang Kham Moon Yai
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16. 16. ♂ Plai Phat
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17. 17. ♂ Plai Sombat (Seedor Sombat)
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18. 18. ♂ Plai Sukhum
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19. 19. ♂ Plai Sutin
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20. 20. ♀ Pang Sarah
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21. 21. ♂ Plai Somluk
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22. 22. ♂ Plai Suthas
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See also a more detailed list with the elephants arrival dates etc.

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 Tawan was born captive-born 2005.

2012-04-08: Going to the Reintroduction Foundation

Sources used for this article is among others:

• John Roberts, Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation in Northern Thailand
  
• http://elephant-tails.anantara.com/Changing-an-elephant-s-luck--Bye--bye-Plai-Tawan-/
  
• http://elephantreintroduction.blogspot.com/

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Doi Pha Muang Wildlife Sanctuary
• More elephants from: Thailand
• More elephants that was born: 2005
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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