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.

This story appears in the September 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... All at once baby elephants emerge from the brush, a straggled procession of 18 flap-eared brown heads, their ...

Babar the elephant, who has appeared in dozens ... Babar fighting with Black people in Africa," he told National Geographic. "My second book, 'Babar's Picnic,' was also inspired by my father's ...