Plai Num Sek an Asian elephant at Pu Jay Mau Sabmak

Location

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

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

In Pu Jay Mau Sabmak, Plai Num Sek lives as single living elephant in this location (see detailed list).

Offspring

Total: 10 babies

1. (F) Pạng Nam Petch (พังน้ำเพชร)
2. (F) Pang Num Aoy
3. () Tap Tim
4. (M) Kwan
5. (F) 2000 Pang Som Sri (Lum Yai)
6. (F) 2001 Num-Oi Local id: A60408
7. (M) 2003 Sirimongkol (พลายศิริมงคล)
8. (F) 2006-01-03 Pang Meena Local id: 20
9. (M) 2009-02-03 Plai Chai Mongkol
10. (M) 2018-03-17 Samson

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 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

Sources used for this article is among others:

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

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Pu Jay Mau Sabmak
• More elephants from: Thailand
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

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