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.

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

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 ...