Asian elephants are a little smaller than African elephants, but they are still the biggest animals on the continent of Asia. A fully grown one weighs around 4,000 kilograms - about the same as three small cars stacked on top of each other.
If you compare the two kinds of elephant carefully, you can see the differences. Asian elephants have smaller, rounder ears, shaped a bit like the country of India. African elephants have huge, flappy ears shaped like Africa. Only some male Asian elephants grow long tusks; many have none at all.
Wild Asian elephants in Thailand live in family groups in protected national parks like Khao Yai and Kui Buri. The whole family follows the oldest mum, called the matriarch, who remembers where to find food and water in the dry season. Calves stay close to their mother for years.
Elephants are very important in Thai culture. You see them painted on temple walls, carved on doorways, and used as a symbol on team kits. They have been part of Thai stories for thousands of years - which is why protecting the wild ones, and giving them safe forest to live in, matters so much.