Later on, the media picked up on the Chinese name Linwang (林王), which has the same meaning, and later the character for "Wang" was slightly modified (林旺). This male Indian elephant (Elephas maximus) was born in Burma, sometime around 1918.
林旺本名「阿妹」（緬語音譯，意為林中之王，後被媒體誤傳為林旺），籍貫是緬甸，象種屬於亞洲象，雄性，出生時間據推測大概是民國七年。