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Elephant learns to speak Korean
Elephant learns to speak Korean Meet Koshik, the Asian elephant who learnt to speak Korean after five years at Everland Zoo in South Korea. An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech by placing his trunk in his mouth. In this video, Koshik can be heard saying "choah" which means "good" in Korean. The word can be readily understood by those who know the language. Reasearchers for Current Biology have found that Koshik #39;s vocabulary consists of exactly five words. He can also say "annyong" ("hello"), "anja" ("sit down"), "nuo" ("lie down") and "aniya" ("no"). Scientists hope that Koshik #39;s language skills may provide important insights into the biology and evolution of human speech and music. There have been some earlier reports of vocal mimicry in both African and Asian elephants. African elephants have been known to imitate the sound of truck engines, and a male Asian elephant living in a zoo in Kazakhstan was said to produce utterances in both Russian and Kazakh, but that case was never scientifically investigated.From:CMA2012ShowViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:26More inPets Animals

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