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.

Many visitors to Thailand have seen how the Asian elephant can paint a picture by holding a paintbrush in their trunks. This may seem like AI trickery, but the elephant is really painting here.

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There’s a new artist in town — and she’s painting without a brush. Only nine months old, elephant calf Meru is officially Tucson’s newest Van Gogh, creating abstract paintings with her ...