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.

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 ...

How they're made: Indigenous Indian artisans from The Real Elephant Collective ... The exhibition is organized by Elephant Family USA. What's next: Other public art installations will join the ...

real elephants” — the ones that make the fun noise, she said. Ruth Ganesh is the co-founder of “The Great Elephant Migration, ...