Though rare for a tiger to attack a fully grown elephant, young elephants could be in danger of tiger attacks when they stray ...

A carcass of a Makna elephant (male elephant without tusks) was found in the jungles of Bagdogra in the Kurseong division of ...

The 25-year-old male elephant, with long tusks, was found dead on a farmland at Nelaballi. Forest officials suspect that it ...

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.