Pa Mai an Asian elephant at Changsha Zoo

☨ ♂ Pa Mai
Alternative name:	Pa Ke

Identification


Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂ 18 years old
Dentition:	tusker
Body height:	3.30 meter, 10.8 feet
Body weight:	4000.00 kg, 8800.00 lbs
Origin
Born:	* 1991-04-11 wild
Birth place:	in Yunnan province unspecified forest
Capture:	1998 Yunnan province
Death
Dead date:	† 2009-06-28
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations
Present / last location:	Changsha Zoo, in China

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

2002-10-19	Changsha Zoo from Kunming Zoo Kunming Zoo from Yunnan province unspecified forest

Document updated	2009-04-13: New elephant 2009-08-25: changed sex to male 2014-02-21: previous loc, arr date, death date 2018-05-06: new record
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Description

† Pa Mai is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Changsha Zoo, in China, of from unknown reasons in 2009-06-28. (see detailed list).

Origin

Pa Mai was born wild 1991-04-11 at Yunnan province unspecified forest, captured 1998 , captured at Yunnan province.

Comments / pictures

In April 2009, Pa Mai celebrated his eighteenth birthday with a party hosted by zoo staff. He was captured from the wild in the Yunnan province at seven years of age. The tusked male is kept alone, but plans are in the works to transfer him to the new Changshaw Ecological Zoo in summer 2009 to begin a potential breeding program. He weighs more than four tons and measures 3.3 meters.

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Pa Mai, an Asian elephant at Changsha Zoo in China. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 9 May 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=4719. (archived at the Wayback machine)