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 March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

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

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I’ve come back ... past rows of shackled elephants, their trunks swaying. I was here five hours before, when the ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. IN JANUARY 2012 ... SLAUGHTERING HUNDREDS OF ELEPHANTS—entire families—in one of the worst concentrated killings ...

By opening trails that become channels, elephants add to the dynamism. This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Seen from space, high above Africa ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of ... him when he and his crew were stranded on Elephant Island in 1916. After polar ice crushed ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Fewer than 200 were ... the park also harbors almost 1,300 wild elephants; 1,800 Asiatic wild water buffalo, the ...