This may seem like AI trickery, but the elephant is really painting here. However, like with the hose, this is a situation where humans have acted as enablers. The elephant has been exhaustively ...

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.

Professional artists painted 30 large sculptures, with more than 40 baby elephant models decorated by the local community More than 70 elephant sculptures that were on show in parks, streets and ...