This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.

An internationally renowned artist has painted an elephant sculpture that will be placed with 39 others around Leicester to ...

Each of the gentle giants was painted by a mix of local and national artists, with the smaller elephants crafted by local schoolchildren and community group members. The most popular sculpture was ...

When the painted wolves chase impala they travel very quickly, up to 72kph and aren’t able to look where they are going. Crossing one of these big elephant pathways, they risk getting a foot ...

Patches of red on the legs, blue patterning over the backs, and on the heads, the ears - which are clearly the ears of an Indian south Asian elephant. The insides are painted a primrose yellow ...