Thematic : Elephants.

Champa and Champi, mascots of the 25th South East Asian Games held for the first time in Vientiane, Laos, issued on December 9, 2009:



The SS was sold inside souvenir leaf:

"The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" is a non-fiction book by American author David Grann. Published in 2009, the book recounts the activities of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon rainforest while looking for the ancient "Lost City of Z". In the book, Grann recounts his own journey into the Amazon, by which he discovered new evidence about how Fawcett may have died.

The Lost City, Liberia, 2001:

African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) of Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal, designed by the Belgian artist Jean Van Noten and issued by Senegal on June 2, 1980:

Issued in a sheet contains the elephant stamp with different value:

Songkran, Buddhist New Year, ceremonies, splashing holy water, issued by Thailand on April 7, 2015:

THe "Triumph of Dionysos" mosaic from Setif, Algeria shows a triumphal procession to celebrate the god's conquest of India. It shows Dionysus in a tiger-drawn chariot, surrounded by maenads and satyrs. Several exotic animals are depicted including elephant. Issued by Algeria on February 14, 1980:

African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), issued by Cuba on December 27, 2002 as part of the set "Prehistoric Animals and their Modern Counterparts"

Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), issued by India on December 3, 2015 to publicize the zoological survey of India:

A sheet of 16 stamps shows painting of many different animals by the Georgian painter Zurab Potskhishvili, issued by Georgia on August 4, 1995. Elephant on two upper left stamps:

Monkey riding elephant, Chinese miniature sculptures, issued by Grenada in 2016 to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Monkey:

This stamp show the way the Carthaginians arrived from Carthage to Rome via Spain riding their elephants:

This stamp issued by Spain on September 22, 2000 in a sheet of 12 cartoon stamps, each shows event in Spain history:

Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), issued by Australia on September 20, 2016:

One more SS from Bhutan shows the Buddhist legend "The four harmonious friends", issued in 2016 this time to celebrate the Chinese year of the monkey:

Group of dancers from different ethnic groups of Laos on a background of an herd of elephants, designed by Ky Phungchaleun, engraved by Jean Miermont and issued by the Kingdom of Laos on May 1, 1971 to publicize the international year against racism:

Sri Lanka has issued numerous stamps featuring elephants, including this famous Tusker stamp released in 2019.

Stamp.Quest, welcome to SCF and thanks for sharing the great Sri Lankan elephant stamp. Here is another one from your county, issued is 1994 to commemorate the Vesak, Buddha birth festival. Stamp shows Sila Paramitava, the perfection of ethical conduct and morality in Buddhism. I don't know the legend the stamp depicts: