Watch emperor penguin families. Elephants aren’t just family—they’re friends. And friends help each other. One herd tried to hold up an elephant after she became woozy from a researcher’s ...
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.
Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...
It’s a stampede — with a message. The “Great Elephant Migration,” one of the largest outdoor art installations to hit the streets of New York, has placed 100 life-sized elephant sculptures ...
Artist/Director Mary Jo Bole mines an eccentric inherited archive in order to trace her family tree, which includes both Cleveland industrialist magnates and immigrant factory workers. Bole’s ...
After watching the program and considering the subject, I believe that the bowers are indeed a form of art. In the past, there have been stories of animals allegedly doing artwork, such as ...
Landscape paintings may include people or animals but the focus is the scenery. Some landscape paintings include buildings or scenes from a city. These are known as cityscapes. The term landscape ...
Your support makes all the difference. A court in America is being asked to decide if elephants are considered to be the same as people in a ruling on the animals’ freedom. Missy, Kimba ...