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.
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.
These are wooden elephants, part of The Great Elephant Migration, an art installation sharing a message about conservation and human-wildlife coexistence. The large herd is on display near 36th ...