5: A mountain goat perched on a narrow building buttress and looking down as crumbling rocks appear to fall in west London. — ...

It depicts two elephants leaning out adjacent windows ... The artwork was painted on a shutter at the London Zoo, and features a gorilla helping a seal and birds make their escape.

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.