Plai Num Sek
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Pu Jay Mau Sabmak in Thailand

♂ Plai Num Sek
Num Sek during the Surin elephant festival, 2011.
Identification
Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂
Management:	Free contact
Origin
Born:	* unknown
Birth place:
Offspring
Total: 10 babies
1. Born	♀ Pạng Nam Petch (พังน้ำเพชร)
2. Born	♀ Pang Num Aoy
3. Born	⚪ Tap Tim
4. Born	♂ Kwan
5. Born 2000	♀ Pang Som Sri (Lum Yai)
6. Born 2001	♀ Num-Oi Local id: A60408
7. Born 2003	♂ Sirimongkol (พลายศิริมงคล)
8. Born 2006-01-03	♀ Pang Meena Local id: 20
9. Born 2009-02-03	♂ Plai Chai Mongkol
10. Born 2018-03-17	♂ Samson
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Pu Jay Mau Sabmak, in Thailand
Date of arrival
	Pu Jay Mau Sabmak
Record history
History of updates	2021-11-02
Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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Biography

Plai Num Sek is a living Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) , located with the private owner Pu Jay Mau Sabmak, in Thailand.

Num Sek arrived to Pu Jay Mau Sabmak unknown date, relocated from , in .

In Pu Jay Mau Sabmak, Plai Num Sek lives as single living elephant at this location

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 Num Sek was born unknown .

Pu Jay bought Num Sek in Lampoon, northern Thailand, when he was about two years old, and unfortunately he does not recall any names of the parents, but he claim Num Sek was born within Lampoon elephant community.

2005: Num Sek was starring in the film "The Scorpion King" together with Thong Kham.

Se also blog article Famous Surin elephants: Num Sek

References

Sources used for this article is among others:

• John Roberts, http://www.helpingelephants.org/

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• More elephants from: Pu Jay Mau Sabmak
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